MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: Blackouts reported in greater Caracas region of Venezuela

https://twitter.com/NoticiasVenezue/status/1126695109246849025

https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1126695747779301376

Notable: Iran's ambassador to UN denied Tehran gave a green light to its proxies to attack U.S. forces

https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1126691380082774017

WASHINGTON — Iran's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday denied that Tehran had given a green light to its proxies to attack U.S. forces in the Middle East, accusing U.S. officials of employing "fake intelligence."

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi rejected statements from the Trump administration that Tehran posed a heightened danger to U.S. interests in the region.

"These are all allegations which are being produced by the same people who, in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, did the same," Ravanchi said, in an apparent reference to national security adviser John Bolton, who worked in George W. Bush's administration during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

"So we do not accept such an allegation. And all of these (allegations) are fake intelligence," Ravanchi said…

Notable: EU election WIPEOUT: Brexit Party may take MAJORITY after SHOCKING stat indicates VICTORY

EU election WIPEOUT: Brexit Party may take MAJORITY after SHOCKING stat indicates VICTORY

NIGEL FARAGE’S Brexit Party could win a majority in the upcoming European election as a shocking stat reveals current predictions may be underestimating the party.

“Currently the Brexit party are polling on about 30 percent, that could push them to 50 percent and push them to a majority.

“We then have this silly situation where the Lib Dems, Change UK, maybe Labour and the Greens will split the vote.

“I think if the Brexit Party is able to fill the candidate pretty much everywhere which they claim they can it would be a total wipeout.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1124677/Brexit-News-update-latest-the-Final-countdown-eu-elections

Notable: US moving ahead with tariffs on $325B in Chinese goods, WH says

https://twitter.com/foxnewsalert/status/1126691873207119877

Notable: >>6459844 Ongoing situation between US Coast Guard vessels and Venezuelan Navy off Venezuela coast

https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1126682952069459968

Notable: REVEALED: NXIVM members presented HRC with illegal campaign donation to gain 'political influence to further their agenda'

REVEALED: Nxivm members presented Hillary Clinton with illegal campaign donation at event in hopes of 'obtaining political influence to further their agenda'

Nxivm members exceeded campaign donation limits back in 2007 when they gave thousands to Hillary Clinton according to a court filing

Raniere and his co-defendants reportedly gave money that was reimbursed by Nancy Salzman and Clare Bronfman

Al Franken, Claire McKaskill, Ken Salazar and Tammy Duckworth also received donations from Nxivm according to records obtained by DailyMail.com

Records obtained by DailyMail.com also show that the group gave $10,000 to the Democratic Committee of South Carolina as well when Hillary needed a win

By CHRIS SPARGO FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 14:11 EDT, 9 May 2019 | UPDATED: 14:11 EDT, 9 May 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7011873/Nxivm-members-presented-Hillary-Clinton-illegal-campaign-donation-event-curry-favor.html

related can post from today

>>6457272 (pb)

>Reminder: NXIVM Sex-Cult Prosecutors Have Evidence Of Illegal Clinton Campaign Contributions For "Political Influence"

>PDF of "Filling" is attached: …ackleteering Evidence 03-12-2019

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-17/nxivm-sex-cult-prosecutors-have-evidence-illegal-clinton-campaign-contributions

Notable: Le Pen ahead of Macron in latest EU election polls

Le Pen ahead of Macron in latest EU election polls

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/05/le-pen-ahead-of-macron-in-latest-eu-election-polls/

AWAKENING FULL SPEED AHEAD.

Notable: >>6460068 New POTUS Tweets

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126683358917025798

James Comey is a disgrace to the FBI & will go down as the worst Director in its long and once proud history. He brought the FBI down, almost all Republicans & Democrats thought he should be FIRED, but the FBI will regain greatness because of the great men & women who work there!

Notable: Pentagon is planning a military border mission for the 'next couple years'

https://twitter.com/starsandstripes/status/1126658109693485057

Notable: Bill Barr Laughs at Dems For Holding Him in Contempt of Congress

Bill Barr Laughs at Dems For Holding Him in Contempt of Congress (VIDEO)

If House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler was trying to rattle Attorney General Bill Barr by voting to hold him in contempt of Congress, he failed miserably.

Bill Barr is like a boxer who laughs after taking a hit.

Barr laughed at Nadler and the Dems Thursday during Rod Rosenstein’s farewell ceremony.

‘This must be a record of Attorney General being proposed for contempt within 100 days of taking office,” Barr said laughing.

President Trump on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over the full, unredacted version of Mueller’s report and the House Dems voted to hold AG Barr in contempt of Congress for refusing to give Congress the full report and underlying grand jury material.

Nadler and the Dems voted to hold Barr in contempt for following the law. This is the current state of affairs in this country.

The Dem-controlled Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), held a vote Wednesday morning and voted on party lines — 22 Dems to 12 Republicans.

The Justice Department hit back at Nadler and the Dems in statement Wednesday afternoon.

The DOJ argued that AG Barr made “extraordinary efforts to provide Congress” with information related to Mueller’s report, however the attorney general was not going to break the law.

Bill Barr does not seem fazed whatsoever by the Democrats, even though he is facing a contempt citation — it takes a fearless Attorney General like Bill Barr to deal with the lawless Deep State-Democrat-media complex.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/in-your-face-nadler-bill-barr-laughs-at-dems-for-holding-him-in-contempt-video/

Notable: Syria Update

SYRIA UPDATE

US-backed Qasad militia commits massacre in Deir Ezzor countryside, six civilians killed

Local sources said that Qasad militia backed by US helicopters at dawn besieged al-Katef neighborhood in Shahil town for more than two hours ,and then stormed into the neighborhood with heavy and random shooting , claiming the lives of six civilians , injuring others, and arresting a number of the locals.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=165212

Protests against practices of SDF militia renewed in Deir Ezzor countryside

The reporter quoted local sources as saying that the protests against practices of SDF militia were renewed today in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor due to the militia’s crimes of arresting many of the villagers in Deir Ezzor countryside and opening fire on the locals, killing and injuring scores of them.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=165218

Turkish-Backed Militants Target Syrian Army Tanks, Positions With Guided Missiles

On May 9, the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL) released four videos showing attacks with anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) on the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in northern Hama.

In the first three video, NFL fighters can be seen hitting three battle tanks of the SAA near the town of Qalaat al-Madiq and the Saker hill with Kornet and Konkurs ATGMs.

https://youtu.be/DN0QdoKWVlo

https://youtu.be/bkpevKZdTZI

https://youtu.be/4PN_lm-oUyo

https://southfront.org/turkish-backed-militants-target-syrian-army-tanks-positions-with-guided-missiles-videos/

Lavrov: Terrorism Hotbed in Idleb Must Be Eliminated

Lavrov said that the terrorist organisation Jabhat al-Nusra controls most of Idleb’s area and continues to target civilians, positions of the Syrian Arab Army and the Hemeimeem Airbase, which cannot be allowed.

Lavrov stressed that the situation in the al-Jazira region is concerning and Washington’s behaviors in Syria violate UN Security Council resolutions, which stress an abidance to Syria’s unity and territorial integrity.

https://syrianobserver.com/EN/news/50285/lavrov-terrorism-hotbed-in-idleb-must-be-eliminated.html

Army thwarts terrorists’ infiltration attempt to military points and safe areas in Idleb

Army units on Thursday thwarted terrorists’ infiltration attempt from Abu al-Dohour area to military points and safe villages in Idleb province. SANA reporter said that many of the terrorists were either killed or injured and their weapons were destroyed during the operations.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=165215

Khan Shaykhun Locals Are In Talks With Damascus Over Possible Reconciliation Agreement

Prominent local leaders in the town of Khan Shaykhun in the southern Idlib countryside are currently negotiating with the Damascus government to reach a reconciliation agreement that would prevent an attack on the town, Syrian pro-government activists reported on May 9. According to the activists, the proposed agreement would force all radical militants to withdraw from Khan Shaykhun, that will be placed under the direct control of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA)

https://southfront.org/khan-shaykhun-locals-are-in-talks-with-damascus-over-possible-reconciliation-agreement/

Map Update: Military Situation In Northwestern Syria After First Days Of Syrian Army Advance In Northwestern Hama

Clashes are ongoing in the vicinity of Kafr Nabuda. Militants seek to recapture the town;

A brief Syrian Arab Army (SAA) push towards Habit was repelled by militants;

The SAA captured several positions south of Kabanah;

On May 8, militants once again shelled Hmeimim Airbase;

Airstrikes hit targets near Kabanah, al-Lataminah, Kafr Nabuda and others.

https://southfront.org/map-update-military-situation-in-northwestern-syria-after-first-days-of-syrian-army-advance-in-northwestern-hama/

Note: I'm wondering if the recent push for war with Iran, lead by Israel pushing the US, is related to the SAA/Russia push to liberate Idlib? Once Idlib is clear the whole Turkey/Israel/NATOCoalition reason for being in Syria largely evaporates and leaves them looking like the oil thieves they are!

Notable: Giuliani to travel to Ukraine to push for investigations into origin of Russia probe and Biden's influence in the country

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1126677990434197504

Notable: Trump Jr. unlikely to comply with Senate Intel subpoena

BY JUSTIN WISE - 05/09/19 03:28 PM EDT

Trump Jr. unlikely to comply with Senate Intel subpoena: report

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442982-trump-jr-unlikely-to-comply-with-senate-panel-subpoena-report

Notable: Trump Administration Charges Drone Whistleblower With Allegedly Violating Espionage Act

Trump Administration Charges Drone Whistleblower With Allegedly Violating Espionage Act

A former language analyst for the United States Air Force, who worked for the National Security Agency, was arrested and charged with violating the Espionage Act and other offenses.

According to the indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Daniel Hale allegedly disclosed eleven classified documents to a reporter who worked for an online news website. The documents relate to the U.S. government’s targeted assassination program involving armed drones that was expanded under President Barack Obama’s administration.

If the allegations are true, the U.S. government is prosecuting another whistleblower in its zeal to crackdown on leaks and control the flow of information, particularly on national security matters. They are also criminalizing another source, who provided information to The Intercept.

The timeline in the indictment aligns with the release of Intercept founding editor Jeremy Scahill’s Oscar-nominated “Dirty Wars” film, as well as his comprehensive book on U.S. drone operations with the same title.

In October 2015, The Intercept published a “cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.” The media organization said the documents were provided by a whistleblower and offered “unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars.” They were called “The Drone Papers.”

The Intercept granted “the source’s request for anonymity because the materials are classified and because the U.S. government has engaged in aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers.”

Hale also appeared in the 2016 documentary, “National Bird.” He wore a pin supporting U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning and was following CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling’s prosecution. The FBI raided his home on August 8, 2014, while the film was in production. He reached out to attorney Jesselyn Radack for legal assistance.

The Justice Department filed an indictment on March 7, 2019, and charged Hale with three counts of violating the Espionage Act, one count of violating a code that criminalizes the disclosure of “classified communications intelligence information,” and one count of stealing government property.

It is unclear why the Justice Department took so long to charge Hale with committing any offenses.

Hale was part of Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2012 and identified “targets” for kill/capture. From December 2013 to August 2014, he was a contractor at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

The indictment alleges Hale searched the internet for information on Scahill in April 2013. He attended an event with Scahill at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C., on April 29. The following day Hale signed on to his computer to look for information related to subjects Scahill covered.

On June 8, Hale “sat next to” Scahill at another public event at Busboys and Poets,” which is the government’s awkward way of stating Hale appeared on stage with Scahill during the event. Hale allegedly had dinner with Scahill afterward.

https://shadowproof.com/2019/05/09/trump-administration-charges-alleged-drone-whistleblower-with-violating-espionage-act/

Notable: July 2018 to April 2019's 8chan transparency reports

>>6458741

>the FBI state that they haven't been in contact with 8Chan admins.

I don't know about the tweets from CM but the monthly transparency report shows contact between the FBI and 8chan in August & September 2018

Notable: Investors Suing JPMorgan May Redefine the Leveraged Loan Market

Investors Suing JPMorgan May Redefine the Leveraged Loan Market

Bloomberg) – A group suing JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other Wall Street banks over a loan that went sour four years ago is alleging the underwriters engaged in securities fraud. If successful, the lawsuit could radically transform the $1.2 trillion leveraged lending market.

The defendants say there’s one key problem – unlike bonds, loans aren’t securities. As a result, they’ve filed a petition asking the court to dismiss the suit on those exact grounds.

The debate strikes at the heart of the leveraged loan market, which in recent years has come to look strikingly similar to the higher-profile one for junk-rated bonds. The standardization of loan terms, the deterioration of covenants and the growth of secondary trading continue to blur the lines between the two. Should the plaintiff ultimately prevail, it would dramatically alter how American companies raise debt, according to two industry groups that filed a brief supporting the defendants’ argument last week.

“There are absolutely enormous market consequences if a court determines that leveraged loans are securities,” said J. Paul Forrester, a partner at law firm Mayer Brown who’s not involved in the litigation. “Leveraged loans and lenders would be potentially subject to the same offering and disclosure requirements as securities and would face the same regulatory oversight and enforcement consequences.”

The suit stems from a $1.8 billion loan that JPMorgan and others arranged for Millennium Health LLC – then owned by private-equity firm TA Associates – and sold to investors in 2014. Within a matter of months, lenders saw the value of their loan plunge as the company disclosed that federal authorities were investigating their billing practices. Millennium agreed to pay $256 million to resolve the probe, and would go on to file for bankruptcy.

JPMorgan knew U.S. officials were investigating Millennium when it sold the loan, but didn’t tell investors who were about to buy the debt, Bloomberg reported in 2015. The bankers did not provide the information because Millennium told them it wasn’t material at the time.

“Styled as ‘leveraged loans,’ the debt obligations that defendants sold to the investors back in April 2014 have all the attributes of and, in fact, constituted credit agency-rated and tradeable debt ‘securities,’” the lender trustee wrote in the 2017 suit. As such, the defendants are liable “for sponsoring the materially false presentation of Millennium’s financial condition and business practices.”

Units of Bank of Montreal, Citigroup Inc. and SunTrust Banks Inc. are also listed as defendants in the suit. Bank of Montreal didn’t respond to requests seeking comment on the lawsuit, while the other two declined to comment, as did JPMorgan and a representative for the lenders’ trustee.

“The sophisticated entities that lent Millennium money now try to classify the loan as a ‘security’ and the loan syndication as a ‘securities distribution’ in an attempt to manufacture a securities fraud claim where none is viable, and to avoid the express language of the contracts into which they willingly entered,” JPMorgan and Citigroup wrote in a memorandum last month.

CLO Chaos

No one is saying that a fundamental transformation of the leveraged loan market is imminent. A court ruling in favor of the plaintiff would likely face numerous appeals as the decision works its way through the courts.

Yet if the courts ultimately decide that syndicated term loans are in fact securities, the repercussions would be significant and widespread, according to the Loan Syndications and Trading Association and the Bank Policy institute.

First off, arranging loans would become more cumbersome and costly amid more stringent disclosure requirements. A slower process would deprive borrowers of quick access to capital, while some may shy away from obtaining financing rather than make public confidential information, according to their brief.

And the market for collateralized loan obligations – which provide the bulk of leveraged loan funding – would be thrown into chaos, they wrote. Banks are key buyers of CLOs, but Volcker Rule restrictions bar them from investing in CLOs that own securities. Were loans deemed securities, banks could be forced to offload about $86 billion in existing CLO holdings in the absence of regulatory relief.

“A major disruption in the CLO market would risk reducing that flow of capital – which is a vital resource for a wide spectrum of American businesses – to a trickle,” the industry groups wrote. “Cutting off an important source of capital could have serious consequences for leveraged companies, as well as significant ripple effects throughout the economy.”

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investors-suing-jpmorgan-may-redefine-the-leveraged-loan-market-1.1256261

Notable: >>6458863, >>6458897, >>6458913, >>6458932, >>6458955 New POTUS Retweets

POTUS Retweet

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1126554209091035138

Notable: Video of Chinatown raid linked to seizure of 1000+ weapons in Holmby Hills

https://twitter.com/abc7miriam/status/1126657598298529792

Notable: >>6459147 Sessions Praises Rosenstein at Farewell Ceremony

Sessions Praises Rosenstein at Farewell Ceremony ‘Rod, You Have Honorably Overseen This Process and Achieved a Degree of Justice’

Former AG Jeff Sessions looked like a bumbling fool as he praised coup plotter Rod Rosenstein on Thursday during the Deputy Attorney General’s farewell ceremony.

“He [Rosenstein] chose the respected Bob Mueller, all in accordance with procedures of the Department of Justice,” Sessions said doubling down on his decision to recuse himself from his job.

Sessions then thanked Rosenstein for hijacking the Justice Department, “What I know full well, Rod, is that you fully understood the nature of your responsibility as deputy attorney general.”

“And we can know full well also that you have honorably overseen this process, which has affirmed the rule of law, has achieved a degree of justice that is worthy of this great Department of Justice,” Sessions said. “We thank you for your service and extend our thanks

After recusing himself like a coward and allowing Rosenstein and Mueller to hijack the Justice Department for two years – which ended in a bloodbath of Trump associates, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised his Deputy as an honorable man.

Thankfully Trump fired Jeff Sessions and brought on Bill Barr to be his new Attorney General. Barr took control of Mueller’s witch hunt and immediately shut it down.

Sessions cited the wrong law when he recused himself from the Russia investigation and all things Hillary Clinton the first day on the job.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein became the de facto Attorney General and quickly appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller and gave him permission to rove around unchecked in a massive, $35 million witch hunt.

Mueller, Rosenstein, Weissmann and over a dozen angry, crooked Democrat donors on the special counsel’s team ruined many lives and reputations over the past two years with perjury traps and damaging leaks to the media.

General Mike Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Carter Page were targeted for ruin — Manafort ended up in solitary confinement and sentenced to over 10 years in prison.

Flynn, a three-star General, was forced to sell a home after being buried in legal fees thanks to Mueller’s corrupt witch hunt.

This is what the coward and traitor Jeff Sessions considers “honorable” and “achieving a degree of justice.” Good riddance.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/sessions-praises-rosenstein-at-farewell-ceremony-rod-you-have-honorably-overseen-this-process-and-achieved-a-degree-of-justice-video/

Notable: >>6459031 The curious case of Cynthia Beck’s abandoned Malibu and Bel Air mansions

The curious case of Cynthia Beck’s abandoned Malibu and Bel Air mansions

https://www.yolandaslittleblackbook.com/blog/2018/05/18/cynthia-beck-abandoned-malibu-mansion-28012-sea-lane/

Notable: FBI states that they haven't been in contact with 8Chan admins; Tweets from CodeMonkey suggest otherwise

According to Vice, the FBI state that they haven't been in contact with 8Chan admins. Tweets from CodeMonkey suggest otherwise.

Pic related

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/gy4yvy/8chan-is-a-mysterious-place-to-us-anti-terrorism-officials?utm_source=reddit.com

https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1122685825299337216

https://twitter.com/infinitechan/status/1122494322283167745

TYB

Notable: >>6458794, >>6458845 On Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec

BREAKING ON HANNITY

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged

Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official who met with Steele in October 2016 determined some of the Donald Trump dirt that Steele was simultaneously digging up for the FBI and for Hillary Clinton’s campaign was inaccurate, and likely leaked to the media.

The concerns were flagged in a typed memo and in handwritten notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016.

Her observations were recorded exactly 10 days before the FBI used Steele and his infamous dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s contacts with Russia in search of a now debunked collusion theory.

It is important to note that the FBI swore on Oct. 21, 2016, to the FISA judges that Steele’s “reporting has been corroborated and used in criminal proceedings” and the FBI has determined him to be “reliable” and was “unaware of any derogatory information pertaining” to their informant, who simultaneously worked for Fusion GPS, the firm paid by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign to find Russian dirt on Trump.

Notable: John Solomon Update: FBI was alerted to State Department contact and concerns with Steele

John Solomon Update

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1126648182224707584?s=19

Notable: Bradley Manning released from jail after 62 days for refusing to testify

Manning out of Jail

https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1126650943410515968?s=21

Notable: >>6458455 Video of Rep Max Rose mentioning 8chan

>>6458187

>>6458341

Here you go frens, 8Chan mentioned on Fox

Notable: US Treasury To Accuse Vietnam Of Manipulating Its Dong

>>6458294

US Treasury To Accuse Vietnam Of Manipulating Its Dong

all it twofold projection by the US Treasury.

Bloomberg reports that the Trump administration will expand the number of countries it scrutinizes for currency manipulation in an upcoming report, citing "people familiar with the matter." Yet even after lowering the bar for foreign governments to come under scrutiny, such usual suspects as China, Japan, Switzerland, and Korea will escape scrutiny, and instead Steven Mnuchin's treasury will project the US government's impotence in calling a spade a spade, and will accuse a lightweight of manipulating its currency instead.

According to the report, so far the Treasury has examined its 12 largest trade partners and Switzerland. An expanded watch list could include Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ireland or Malaysia, all of which have large trade surpluses with the U.S.

Perhaps in order to provide comedic relief, Bloomberg reports that Vietnam may be named a manipulator outright for artificially holding down its currency - which as Zero Hedge readers know well - is called the dong, as it met all three criteria the Treasury Department uses to test for currency interventions (in a world in which every central bank manipulates its currency, these criteria are likely not being named China, Japan, which is buying almost every single Japanese ETF it can find to crush the yen, or Switzerland, which is aggressively buying Apple stock to continue to devalue the franc).

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-09/us-treasury-expands-currency-probe-may-name-vietnam-dong-manipulator

Notable: >>6458345, >>6458405 6.3 Magnitude Earthquake off coast of Japan

BREAKING: Large earthquake strikes off coast of Japan

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1126649408446033920

Notable: US-China trade battle in charts

US-China trade battle in charts

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48196495

Notable: Secretary Pompeo tweets

2 part Kansas thread

Secretary Pompeo

@SecPompeo

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The Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in an escalating series of threatening actions and statements in recent weeks. Any attacks by them or their proxies against U.S. citizens or our interests will be answered with a swift and decisive response.

The U.S. appeals to those in Tehran who see a prosperous future through de-escalation. As President Trump said, he “looks forward to someday meeting with leaders of Iran in order to work out an agreement and, very importantly, taking steps to give Iran the future it deserves."

https://twitter.com/secpompeo/status/1126645998686744576?s=21

Notable: >>6458190, >>6458216 Fox News: 8chan mentioned in report on terrorist content on social media by Rep Max Rose

Related posts from PREVIOUS BREAD:

>>6457353, >>6457619 (You) Weak attack on Q.

>>6457733, >>6457761 (You) Initial anon reports coming in: Democrat Rep. attacks 8ch on Fox News.

Will attach the video when it's available

Fox News: 8chan was JUST mentioned in a report on terrorist content on social media platforms by Rep Max Rose

A male Fox News Reporter on The Story with Martha McCallum was just doing a story called ''IS FACEBOOK DOING ENOUGH TO KEEP POLITICAL & TERRORIST PROPAGANDA OFF PLATFORM?"

The Fox reporter was talking with Rep. Max Rose (D) of NY, the chair of the subcmte on Intel and Counterterrorist about real terrorist content (like Al Qaeda/ISIS) material off FB. They guy seemed like a puffed-up, self-important dweeb, totally self-centered–looking to make a name for himself. Rose said a recent FB report on the topic is "incredibly disturbing" because too much terrorist contents leaks thru.

But at about 44 mins past the hour, the conversation took a new turn, talking about the problem of lone gunmen. Rose said it's not just FB that has the responsibility to fight terrorism:

It's YT, it's Twitter AND it's the less popular sites like 8-chan, someone else we have to be focusing on….The FBI and DOJ are not doing nearly enough to work with 8chan, as well.

At least Rose said "working WITH 8chan" as opposed to "investigating 8chan."

Notable: Personal Income Growth Over the Past Year (49 states)

Personal Income Growth Over the Past Year (49 states):

"Estimated change in each state’s aggregate, inflation-adjusted personal income in the fourth quarter of 2018 from a year earlier (subject to data revisions) shows:

Nationally, total personal income rose 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared with a year earlier, below its post-recession peak of 5.3 percent growth at the start of 2011.

The fastest growth was in North Dakota and South Dakota (both 4.4 percent) followed by Washington (4.2 percent), West Virginia (4.1 percent), Iowa (4.0 percent), Arizona (3.7 percent), Utah (3.6 percent), Colorado and Nevada (both 3.5 percent), Texas (3.4 percent), and Florida (3.0 percent).

Washington stands out as the only state to have ranked among the three fastest-growing states in each of the past four quarters.

Personal income grew in every state in each quarter of 2018, except Rhode Island, which recorded slight declines in the second half of the year."

Every state except for Rhode Island. I've been saying for months now MAGA has not reached RI, and it's one (of many) reasons normies here are still asleep and totally crippled by TDS. They're too brainwashed to see what over 50 years of a Democratic stronghold has done to this state. Now we have a tyrant governor in Gina Raimondo who's robbed the state pension system, fouled tourism, screwed up the Department of Human Services, and is now moving to usurp the Second Amendment.

RI is going down the toilet. Let there be sealed indictments for the entire lot of them: Raimondo, Cicilline, Reed, and Whitehouse.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2019/05/03/states-recorded-widespread-economic-gains-in-2018

Notable: >>6458148 Tweet: The Hatch Act is a real law, not a fake law

Is the fact that she brings up the Hatch Act (possible violation) and Steele why POTUS was so on top of Kerry and the Hatch Act in messaging?

https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1126641084673798144

Notable: School employee's child porn charges resulted from an ICE investigation

This is as a result of a ICE investigation.

This could be child trafficking related.

>https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1126637212148346881

>https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-childrens-swim-school-employee-pleads-guilty-child-pornography-charges

Notable: >>6458473 USS Rhode Island test launched an unarmed Trident D5 nuclear missile today

Source for late last bread post

>>6457936(pb)

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-navy-sub-test-launches-missile-following-north-korea-test-of-its-own

Notable: Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to Join Press Against Iran; Iraq Declines

Pompeo in Baghdad to Pressure Iraq to Join Press Against Iran; Iraq Declines

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo made a surprise four-hour visit to Baghdad on Tuesday in connection to the panic he is trying to trump up, along with US national security adviser and Sheldon Adelson plant John Bolton about Iran supposedly planning to attack US troops in the Middle East.

For his part, Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said in remarks to the press that Iraq will undertake to ensure the safety of the some 5,000 US troops in Iraq, who are helping the Iraqi army mop up ISIL remnants.

At the same time, Abdul Mahdi insisted that Iraq would not participate in any economic boycott of any country, which is to say that he declined to cooperate with the Trump administration’s attempts to squeeze Iran.

Iraqi sources said after the visit was over that Bolton offered to give Iraq a temporary waiver with regard to its trade ties with Iran. He may as well, since he is unlikely to get much cooperation from Shiite-ruled Iraq in the blockade on Iran.

The Trump administration has imposed an international financial blockade on Iran trade, which has no UN backing or basis in international law. Iran is in compliance with its obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal, according to UN inspectors. In contrast, the United States has breached that treaty by its blockade.

Tuesday night I watched Iranian president Hassan Rouhani give a speech in which he said that the 2015 nuclear deal is on life support, and that while Iran is not withdrawing from it, it will cease observing some self-limits it had imposed beyond the strict letter of the treaty. Iran will no longer limit enrichment of uranium to 3.67 percent (what is needed to make fuel for generating electricity). It has to be enriched to 95% for a bomb, but every increase above 3.67 percent is a tiny step toward the latter, and concerning to the world community. Rouhani said that Iran may also renovate the heavy water reactor at Arak. Heavy water reactors are much easier to use to make fissile material than light water reactors. I’m confused by this statement, since I thought bricking in the Arak proposed reactor was one of the four cardinal points of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Rouhani’s plans are foolish, since they just give ammunition to the US War Party, even though they are not steps toward a bomb.

The only two countries in the greater Middle East who actually have nuclear weapons are Israel and Pakistan. Iran does not, and apparently has never intended to develop such weapons, in part on religious grounds.

Pompeo and Bolton have not only claimed credit for sending a US aircraft carrier battle group to the Gulf but they have also sent four B-52 bombers to al-Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar, in hopes of spooking the Iranians into doing something rash so that they can rally the gullible American public to a war on Iran. Qatar has correct relations with Iran, and this move puts Doha in a difficult position. Iran came to Qatar’s aid in 2017 when the Saudis imposed a blockade on it, at a time when Trump was tweeting lies about Qatar and siding with the Saudis.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/pompeo-baghdad-pressure-iraq-join-press-against-iran-iraq-declines/5677057

Notable: Senate panel approves Trump nominee Jeffrey Rosen as Deputy AG.

Senate Panel Approves Trump Nominee Jeffrey Rosen as Deputy AG

The Senate Judiciary Committee on May 9 approved President Donald Trump’s deputy attorney general nominee, Jeffrey Rosen, forwarding the matter to the Senate floor for confirmation. Rosen currently serves as deputy secretary at the Department of Transportation. Trump picked him at the recommendation of Attorney General William Barr, who has worked with Rosen in private law practice.

Democrats, who are the minority party on the committee, opposed Rosen, saying he’s never worked as a prosecutor. “We can’t and shouldn’t afford to have somebody who is learning on the job,” said the panel’s ranking member, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), argued that Rosen’s decades of litigation experience is sufficient, noting that since 1975, there have been five deputy attorney generals with no prosecutorial or Justice Department experience. “This is not a prosecutor’s job,” he said. “The job of the deputy attorney general, among others, is to manage the organization, which is $28 billion and more than 100,000 employees.” Rosen is “exceedingly well qualified” for this job, Graham said.

Replacing Rosenstein If confirmed by the Republican majority in the Senate, Rosen will replace outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who became one of the department’s most high-profile deputies in recent history, after he appointed special counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017 to probe Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. While Mueller’s report didn’t determine whether Trump obstructed justice, it documented multiple episodes painting Trump’s behavior in an unflattering light. Rosenstein and Barr later concluded Mueller found insufficient evidence to prosecute Trump for obstruction.

Rosenstein, who was to be honored in a May 9 farewell ceremony, will be leaving his post at the end of the week. Rosen suggested during his April 10 confirmation hearing that, if necessary, he is willing to rebuff political pressure from the White House. He told the legislators that he would expect that all criminal investigations “proceed on the facts and the law” and that he believes prosecutions should be “free of improper political influences.” “If the appropriate answer is to say no to somebody, then I will say no,” he said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/senate-panel-approves-trump-nominee-jeffrey-rosen-as-deputy-ag_2915173.html

UNITED STATESSENATECOMMITTEEONTHEJUDICIARYQUESTIONNAIREFOR NON-JUDICIAL NOMINEES

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Jeffrey%20A.%20Rosen%20SJQ%20-%20PUBLIC2.pdf

Notable: Chinese bid for Washington Metro contracts is a major security threat.

Chinese Bid for Washington Metro Contracts Is a Major Security Threat

A Chinese state-owned company is bidding for a more than $500 million contract to supply rail cars for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and the contract should be raising eyebrows in terms of finances and security. The company, China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC), is based in Beijing and is the world’s second-largest construction and engineering company. It is owned by the Chinese regime’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. Being owned by the Chinese regime means it’s held under Chinese law, meaning that any data it collects through Wi-Fi or sensors will be liable to Chinese data monitoring laws. Under the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) National Security Law, all data needs to be “secure and controllable.” The CCP has large-scale data monitoring programs under its Golden Shield censorship system, its Skynet surveillance system, its Social Credit System to track and rate citizens, and others.

Erik Olson, vice president of the Rail Security Alliance, told The Epoch Times in a previous interview that trains today are fitted with numerous systems for monitoring, which could be compromised if the CCP were able to control the rails. Modern trains have closed-circuit cameras, internal Wi-Fi, and various types of sensors that can collect data.

Reuters published a story on the potential Washington Metro deal on May 9, claiming that “national security hawks” are circling in on the contract potentially going to China. It questions why a state would be interested in spying on people using subway cars—yet for Washington, the answer should be obvious. If the CCP was able to receive data from the Wi-Fi networks, security cameras, and other sensors, it would mean the data of any government officials using those networks could be compromised. For example, Pentagon officials checking their email on the networks could have their passwords stolen. It also would mean that the CCP would be able to track the movements of individuals and those they’re traveling with, as China’s facial recognition technology is among the most advanced in the world. FBI agents meeting with sources could have their sources compromised, and government officials having improper meetings could be blackmailed. The CCP could extend the same systems it uses against its own citizens into the heart of U.S. politics.

Reuters doesn’t explain that CRCC is not engaged in a normal business competition. Being state-owned, the company doesn’t need to make a profit. This allows it to bid below cost and push out competitors. And it often bids at a significantly lower amount than any honest competitor could afford. CRCC has shown its ability to dominate markets using this method in Australia. After it was allowed into the Australian market close to 10 years ago, it eventually acquired one of the three main Australian rail companies, and the two others went out of business. The Chinese company already has been using the same tactic in the United States. Olson said that in Boston, CRCC was bidding at about half the price quoted by its competitor.

“The Boston one is particularly interesting because the second-lowest bid was from Bombardier, which was around $1 billion, and CRCC came in at $569 million,” Olson said. “[CRCC] don’t have to make money, so they can do whatever they want.” Some cities are going around federal regulations so they can work with CRCC. In Boston, for example, the local government waived federal funds so they won’t be held accountable to President Donald Trump’s 2017 “Buy American and Hire American” executive order.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-bidding-for-dc-metro-contracts-is-a-major-security-threat_2915299.html

Notable: Eleven-year-old ‘Drag Kid’ now a spokeschild for Converse shoe.

Eleven-year-old ‘Drag Kid’ now a spokeschild for Converse shoes

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 9, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― An 11-year-old drag performer known as Desmond-is-Amazing is now a model for a shoe company.

The Converse footwear company, once known for its fashionable high top basketball shoes, has announced a new “partnership” with Desmond Napoles and five other “individuals connected with the LGBTQ+ community” to market its new “Pride collection.”

The announcement accompanied a photograph of Desmond dressed in a colorful shoulder-baring outfit and heavy makeup, posing suggestively before the five other models, including a man dressed as a woman and two women dressed as boys.

Publishing the news on Twitter, Converse said, “We're happy to launch our Pride Collection, partnering with six individuals connected to the LGBTQ+ community who show the power of expressing one's true self. Contributions are supporting @ItGetsBetter@OutMetroWest & @FenwayHealth.

“It Gets Better” and “Out Metro West” are LBGT charities, and “Fenway Health” is a Boston medical organization specializing in the health of people with same-sex attractions and HIV/AIDS research. Converse is a Boston company, owned by Nike.

Many Twitter reactions to the announcement focused on the exploitation of 11-year-old Desmond, which some commentators linked to the exploitation of workers in Nike sweatshops.

“Now that's true equality: child abuse in the USA to match the child abuse in foreign Converse sweatshops. Nothing or no-one should stand in the way of corporate greed,” tweeted Down children advocate Renate Lindeman and linked to an Oxfam article about abuse of workers in a Converse factory in Indonesia.

“Congrats on enabling child abuse here in America to go along with the children making your crummy shoes in sweatshops overseas,” tweeted John Hawkins.

Tamara Pfanstiel tweeted: “What they are doing to that child is abuse. Children aren’t supposed to be ‘sexy.’ That disgusting. Get a grip.”

Some LGBT advocates were disgusted that Converse was trying to appeal to buyers though the use of children.

“It's really painful trying to advocate for LGBT positivity when you see ACTUAL child sexualization lumped into it like a tumor. Whatever clueless executive signed off on this should be ashamed,” tweeted an individual called “F***ING FINALS RGC”.

Another Tweeter posted a video of Desmond pretending to snort club drug ketamine during a video appearance with an adult female impersonator or “drag queen.”

Desmond has been at the center of a controversy concerning his public appearances as a child drag performer. He first attracted public attention when he was filmed at age 10 onstage at RuPaul’s DragCon 2017. The famous host referred to the boy as “this gorgeous little queen.” The child subsequently appeared on Good Morning America and accepted engagements dancing in gay bars. He was filmed dancing in both New York and San Francisco as men threw money at him.

Desmond also appeared on a YouTube talk show hosted by Michael Alig, a 1990s New York dance club personality who spent almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter after the violent death and dismemberment of a drug dealer named Andre Melendez.

Public outcry has led to multiple complaints to several state social welfare departments against Desmond’s parents, Wendy and Andrew Napoles. However, Wendy Napoles recently stated on social media that she and her husband have been cleared of any neglect or wrongdoing and posted letters on Instagram from welfare agencies attesting to this. She has also stated that she and her husband do not profit from Desmond’s performances.

Desmond, who has autism, has stated that he is a homosexual.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/eleven-year-old-drag-kid-now-a-spokeschild-for-converse-shoes

Notable: John Solomon uploads handwritten notes of CS meeting.

https://www.scribd.com/document/409363897/State-Department-handwritten-notes-of-meeting-with-Christopher-Steele

Notable: Twitter Approved: Antifa accounts threaten armed conflict with Conservatives, doxxes ICE agents and their families.

Antifa Accounts Threaten Armed Conflict with Conservatives, Doxxes ICE Agents AND THEIR FAMILIES — Approved by Twitter

Twitter, Facebook and Google continue to work daily to eliminate conservative voices online.

Last week Facebook and Instagram banned several conservatives including Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, the personal account of Alex Jones and others, categorizing some as “dangerous.”

But far left accounts that threaten armed conflict and regularly dox conservatives and ICE officials are approved by these far left tech giants.

Far Left Watch revealed Antifa accounts doxxing ICE officials AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS!

Of course, these violent far left communists are approved by Twitter to continue posting their violent threats while conservatives who defend America are banned.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/antifa-accounts-threaten-armed-conflict-with-conservatives-doxxes-ice-agents-and-their-families-approved-by-twitter/

Notable: Anon: "Richard Burr is a cornball hillbilly lowlife."

Richard Burr is a cornball hillbilly lowlife.

Notable: Oracle lays off 900 employees in China in plan to shut R&D centers.

Oracle Lays Off 900 Employees in China in Plan to Shut R&D Centers

Oracle, the world’s largest database software and technology company, has begun laying off about 900 employees at its research and development (R&D) centers in China, according to a recently leaked internal company memo. The layoffs is the latest bout of bad news amid China’s economic downturn, after former employees at some of China’s biggest tech companies complained of widespread layoffs earlier this year. Chinese media who spoke to some newly unemployed Oracle staffers reported that the U.S. tech giant plans to close all of its five R&D centers in China and lay off all 1,600 employees working there.

Massive Layoffs In the memo leaked on May 7, Oracle stated that the layoffs were part of adjustments to its global engineering team, as it seeks to supply more cloud services rather than old-fashioned software. The first Oracle R&D facility was founded in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in 2002. Then it founded others in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Nanjing.

Chinese media 21st Century Business Herald quoted several Oracle engineers who worked at the Beijing R&D Center. On May 7, the center held a town-hall meeting in the morning and announced the first round of layoffs. “I had my one-on-one meeting at 9:55 a.m., and the severance package is N+6,” an anonymous Oracle Beijing employee told 21st Century Business Herald. “N+6” means the number of service years in monthly salary plus six months. For example, a laid-off employee will receive 11-months’ salary as compensation if he has worked for five years. “All the laid-off employees [in this round] have to sign the resignation contract before May 22, and leave the company before May 31,” another anonymous employee told 21st Century Business Herald.

The second Oracle employee said he was initially told by co-workers that his team would not get laid off, so he did not make any preparations in advance. He said it would be difficult find a new job within 20 days. Although he will get the N+6 severance package, he does not wish to take a break from work. Chinese internet portal Sohu interviewed several Oracle employees and reported on May 8 that the company plans to lay off 900 of its China staff in May, about 500 of which work at the Beijing R&D center. In July, Oracle will close all five China R&D facilities and lay off the remaining 700 engineers. Oracle will keep its sales and marketing, technical support, training, and other administrative teams in China.

According to Qi Chacha, a database of Chinese companies, the average monthly salary at Oracle China is 48,959 yuan ($7,218). According to figures published by the Beijing government, the average salary in Beijing in 2017 was 8,467 yuan ($1,248). Chinese law stipulates that companies offer a minimum of “N+1” severance packages. Still, some of Oracle’s laid-off employees expressed online that they were not satisfied with their N+6 packages and protested in front of the Beijing company headquarters.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/oracle-closes-china-rd-centers-layoff-900-employees-in-first-round_2912749.html

Notable: Vice President Mike Pence Tweets: We didn’t need a “magic wand.”

Vice President Mike Pence tweets, We didn’t need a “magic wand.”

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@VP

The Obama/ Biden Administration saw America lose roughly 200,000 manufacturing jobs. Pres. Obama said we’d never got those jobs back. Remember his famous question? “What magic wand do you have?” We didn’t need a “magic wand.” We just needed @POTUS Trump in the White House!

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1126615831792762881

Notable: Problems with Mexico's oil production.

I Translated the tweet below his:

Now what are we going to do? Ku-Maloob-Zaap, the second largest oil-producing asset in the entire continent, lost 15 percent of its crude oil production in a year. Looks like Mexico is in a panic…

Notable: Transdigm Group Inc- Exec. Chairman of the Board sells shares.

Transdigm Group Inc- Exec. Chairman of the Board sells shares

'''cap#1 was executed and filed today, cap#2 was February 20th

TransDigm Group specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of aerospace systems and components. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:

- engine components and control systems (56.1%): mechanical and electromechanical actuators and control systems, pumps and engine control systems, power regulators, ignition systems, thermal management systems, fluid management systems, batteries and power supply systems, motion sensors, data recording, analysis and processing systems, etc. The group also offers winches, lifting systems and cargo handling systems;

- cabin systems and equipment (40.2%): cockpit safety components and systems, locking systems and devices, connectors, audio control systems, specialized sanitary equipment, seat belts and safety devices, interior fittings (seats, display systems, on-board entertainment systems,etc) lighting systems, parachutes, freight delivery systems, etc. ;

- other (3.7%): non-aeronautical systems and equipment.

At the end of September 2018, the group operated about 80 production sites in the world.

Number of employees : 10,100 people

https://www.marketscreener.com/TRANSDIGM-GROUP-16156/company/

Change of tactics here going forward with the insider sale's. Can't keep up with them as there are many so the big one's, dollar-wise and any relevant to news item's and/or related to this op will be posted.

At this point I believe it has been proven as to what is going on here-with share sale's.

Counted them up and there are over 435 and counting.

o7

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1260221.htm

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1260221.htm

Notable: >>6457619 Weak attack on Q.

Comey tweet spirals into Qanon conspiracy forcing school fundraiser cancellation

CST

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1126621643563053057

Qanon conspiracy sparked by Comey tweet forces cancellation of school fundraiser

© Stefani Reynolds

A school in California was forced to cancel plans for its annual fundraiser after conspiracy theorists flooded the school with emails warning of a potential terrorist attack they thought was predicted in a tweet from former FBI Director James Comey.

http://hill.cm/ngBCSET

Notable: DJT Tweet: "Today, it was my honor to welcome the 2018 World Series Champion Boston @RedSox to the @WhiteHouse!"

>>6457189

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126620440703709185

Today, it was my honor to welcome the 2018 World Series Champion Boston @RedSox to the @WhiteHouse!

Notable: POTUS statement on Kerry.

>>6457172

I got you newfag.

Notable: DJT Tweet: "Great news today: My Administration just secured a historic donation of HIV prevention drugs from Gilead…"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1126616468873936896

Notable: CBP budget outline for 2020.

Here's how US border officials want to spend $20.8B in 2020

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a Department of Homeland Security entity, has asked Congress for $18.2 billion to fund operations in fiscal 2020, making it the agency’s biggest annual request for discretionary funds. In addition to the $18.2 billion ask, CBP asked to use $2.6 billion from fees its customs officers have acquired, for a total proposed budget of $20.8 billion. In fiscal 2019, the White House asked for $14.4 billion.

CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert E. Perez testified Thursday afternoon before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations that next year’s budget increase was due, in part, to record-high travel and trade levels, as well as a spike in illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border. Both issues mandated more spending on personnel and resources. In fiscal 2018, CBP interacted with nearly 414 million travelers at airports, seaports, and land ports of entry — up 4% from the previous year. Seven months into fiscal 2019, Border Patrol agents have taken into custody 460,000 people at the southern border compared to around 400,000 in all of the previous year. The proposed budget funds the agency’s four main focuses: trade and travel, border security, counterterrorism, and organizational objectives. Border security is expected to eat up one-quarter of the total budget. Here’s a breakdown of how it wants to spend some of that money.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/heres-how-us-border-officials-want-to-spend-20-8b-in-2020

Notable: Florida lawmakers just voted to create a public registry of people caught paying or attempting to pay for sex.

Florida lawmakers just voted to create a public registry of people caught paying or attempting to pay for sex.

After an initial defeat in the Florida House of Representatives, the registry—arguably the worst part of a new Florida crime bill capitalizing on human-trafficking propaganda—was revived and reinserted before the measure's passage in the Florida Senate. The final version, approved last week, creates a database of convicted prostitution customers, targets strip clubs, and mandates that a slew of state workers and businesses jump through new hoops to accommodate a few politicians' latest attempt to get their names in the press.

As the Florida Senate's Committee on Community Affairs stated, the new registry "will collect and centralize information relating to those convicted of soliciting prostitution, regardless of whether the person subject to the solicitation is a victim of human trafficking or not."

The Soliciting for Prostitution Public Database will list anyone who has been convicted of, or plead guilty, to "soliciting, inducing, enticing, or procuring another to commit prostitution, lewdness, or assignation." The legislation specifies that the database should include a person's name, photograph, address, and offense. Listed people who go five years without a subsequent offense could have their names removed.

Notable: Judge expedites Trump lawsuit to block House subpoena of his accountant.

Judge expedites Trump lawsuit to block House subpoena of his accountant

Judge expedites Trump lawsuit to block House subpoena of his accountant

by Colin Wilhelm

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A federal judge has expedited President Trump’s lawsuit against the House Oversight and Reform Committee over its subpoena of Trump’s accountants for his financial information. Trump sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to block the subpoena. On Thursday, Judge Amit Mehta expedited the suit, telling Congress and the president, who is represented in the case by his personal attorneys rather than White House counsel, that he has enough information from both sides to rule on the case.

The central question to Trump’s challenge of the subpoena is whether the congressional committee’s subpoena of Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, is a valid exercise of legislative power. Mehta will now hold a hearing on the case May 14.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/judge-expedites-trump-lawsuit-to-block-house-subpoena-of-his-accountant

Notable: Hershey Executive and Trust selling moar shares.

Hershey Executive and Trust selling moar shares

The Executive sale, cap#1 is fresh today, the trust amount reflects additional filing last night and is a cumulative amount since May 1st.

The Trust is the Milton Hershey School

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/47111.htm

Notable: U.S. charges Chinese national in hacks of Anthem, other businesses.

U.S. charges Chinese national in hacks of Anthem, other businesses

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal grand jury charged a Chinese national in a 2015 hacking campaign that affected large U.S. businesses including insurer Anthem Inc, where the breach affected a computer system containing data on nearly 80 million people, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday. Fujie Wang, 32, and others including one individual charged as John Doe, conducted intrusions into Anthem and three other American businesses, according to the four-count indictment in federal court in Indianapolis, where Anthem is based. It did not identify the other companies by name.

The hackers used sophisticated techniques to hack into the businesses’ computer systems and installed malware, then identified information of interest including personally identifiable information (PII) and business information. “The allegations in the indictment unsealed today outline the activities of a brazen China-based computer hacking group that committed one of the worst data breaches in history,” said U.S. Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski.

Wang and Doe were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud in relation to computers and identity theft, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and intentional damage to a protected computer, the Justice Department said. The “extremely sophisticated hacking group” ultimately stole data concerning nearly 80 million people from Anthem’s computer networks, the Justice Department said in a statement. The information accessed included names, birthdays, Social Security numbers, street addresses, email addresses and employment information, including income data, it said. In July 2017, Anthem agreed to settle litigation over the breach for $115 million, which lawyers said would be the largest settlement ever for a data breach.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-anthem/u-s-charges-chinese-national-in-hacks-of-anthem-other-businesses-idUSKCN1SF2FZ

Notable: Jeff Sessions: Spying' is a perfectly good word

Jeff Sessions - Spying' is a perfectly good word

Notable: >>6456665, >>6456944 NK reportedly ordered long range missile strike drill.

What’s rocket man doing and don’t tell me it’s all for show.

Notable: >>6456953 Facebook co-founder calls for the breakup of Facebook, pushes for regulation.

It’s Time to Break Up Facebook

Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and former college roommate of Mark Zuckerberg, sounds the alarm on the tech giant and Zuckerberg’s “staggering” world influence.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-co-founder-says-zuckerberg-not-accountable-calls-government-break-n1003606

Notable: Patrick Shanahan has been tapped for Defense Secretary.

Patrick Shanahan has been tapped for Defense Secretary, replacing General Mattis.

After more than four months as acting U.S. defense secretary, the longest anyone has served in that position, Patrick Shanahan has been formally nominated to become President Donald Trump’s permanent Pentagon chief. Shanahan will replace James Mattis, who resigned in December over Trump’s decision—since reversed—to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria.

“Based on his outstanding service to the country and his demonstrated ability to lead, President Trump intends to nominate Patrick M. Shanahan to be the Secretary of Defense,” said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in a statement on Thursday. “Acting Secretary Shanahan has proven over the last several months that he is beyond qualified to lead the Department of Defense, and he will continue to do an excellent job.”

https://www.newsboard.us/post/replacement-for-general-mattis-announced-10129032?pid=1308514638#post1308514638

Notable: >>6456616 Bezos wants to deliver payloads to the moon.

Billionaire Bezos unveils moon lander mockup, touts Blue Origin's lunar goals

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder of rocket company Blue Origin, unveiled on Thursday a mockup of a lunar lander spacecraft and discussed missions to the moon in a strategy tailored to the U.S. government’s renewed push to establish a lunar outpost in just five years.

Bezos, the world’s richest man and also chief executive and founder of Amazon.com, told a rare media event in Washington that the lander, named Blue Moon, could deliver payloads to the moon’s surface and deploy payloads during journey to Moon.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in March called on NASA to build a space platform in lunar orbit and put American astronauts on the moon’s south pole by 2024 “by any means necessary,” four years earlier than previously planned.

“I love this,” Bezos said of Pence’s timeline. “We can help meet that timeline but only because we started three years ago. It’s time to go back to the moon, this time to stay.”

During his hour-long presentation at Washington’s convention center, Bezos waved his arm and a black drape behind him dropped to reveal the two-story-tall unmanned lander mockup, which he said can deploy up to four smaller rovers and shoot out satellites to orbit the moon.

“This is an incredible vehicle and it’s going to the moon,” he added.

Bezos unveiled a model of one of the proposed rovers, which was roughly the size of a golf cart. Bezos also presented a new rocket engine called BE-7, which can blast 10,000 pounds (4,535 kg) of thrust.

Privately held Blue Origin, based in Kent, Washington, is developing its New Shepard rocket for short space tourism trips and a heavy-lift launch rocket called New Glenn for satellite launch contracts. It is aiming to deliver the New Glenn rocket by 2021, while launching humans in a suborbital flight later this year atop its rocket-and-capsule New Shepard.

Blue Origin has also previously discussed a human outpost on the moon.

NASA has already set its sights on the moon’s south pole, a region believed to hold enough recoverable ice water for use in synthesizing additional rocket fuel as well as for drinking water.

Bezos, who has talked about his broader vision of enabling a future in which millions of people live and work in space, has been intent on moving Blue Origin closer to commercialization.

His announcement came about two months before the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, and he began his presentation with video of that event.

Bezos spoke of the importance of future human colonization of space and mentioned two important issues: reducing launch costs and using resources already in space.

“One of the most important things we know about the moon today is that there’s water there,” Bezos said. “It’s in the form of ice. It’s in the permanently shadowed craters on the poles of the moon.”

His vision is shared by other billionaire-backed private space ventures like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and aerospace incumbents like United Launch Alliance, a partnership between Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin.

While Bezos is angling to become a leading player in space exploration and win business from the U.S. government, he has been the target of repeated criticism from President Donald Trump, who has referred to him as Jeff “Bozo.” Bezos also owns the Washington Post, which Trump has frequently targeted in his broadsides about “fake news.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-bezos/billionaire-bezos-unveils-moon-lander-mockup-touts-blue-origins-lunar-goals-idUSKCN1SF1WI?il=0

Notable: Shipfag update.

Finally got a recent track for containership CAP PATTON. She left Larazo Cardenas, Mexico at 01;32 Local time and has ETA of 06:00 Local Time for Corinto, Nicaragua. https://cruiseline.com/port/panama-canal-central-america/puerto-corinto-nicaragua

Notable: Man gets probation for threatening to shoot up school.

Man Gets Probation For Threatening To Shoot Up School

May 9, 2019

Peña was immediately sentenced to three years formal probation, was ordered to stay away from the school and his ex-girlfriend for five years and to participate in mental health counseling.

https://breaking911.com/man-gets-probation-for-threatening-to-shoot-up-school/

Notable: The FBI has 850 open domestic terrorism investigations.

The FBI Has 850 Open Domestic Terrorism Investigations

Homegrown extremism is rising, one year after the Trump administration cut funding to programs that counter hate groups.

A rise in domestic extremism has U.S. law enforcement officials scrambling to keep up. Currently, the FBI has 850 active investigations into domestic terrorism, up from last year, a top counterterrorism official told Congress on Wednesday. Officials couldn’t compare it to a year before but, when asked, said the number was definitely trending up.

“The velocity in which we are working our cases, both on the domestic terrorism side and the international terrorism side, with homegrown violent extremists, that velocity is much quicker than its ever been before,” Michael McGarrity, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, told the House Homeland Security Committee.

Just last week, a 19-year-old man opened fire in a California synagogue, killing one person and wounding three more in an attack believed to be an anti-Semitic hate crime. That follows the April burning of three black churches in Louisiana under suspicious circumstances, the October attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead, and more avowed or suspected hate crimes.

The number of white supremacist groups rose to a record 1,028 last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The ability of hate groups to motivate and radicalize people online was a key point of concern to McGarrity and the other government officials who testified on Wednesday.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/05/fbi-has-850-open-domestic-terrorism-investigations/156861/

Notable: Argentina lawmaker fights for life after brazen shooting.

Argentina lawmaker fights for life after brazen shooting

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine lawmaker was seriously injured and a provincial official killed Thursday in one of the most brazen political attacks in the South American country since it returned to democracy in 1983.

Héctor Olivares, representative of La Rioja province in Argentina’s lower house of congress, was shot around 7 a.m. local time near the congressional building in Buenos Aires, officials said. He is being treated for gunshot wounds that pierced his abdomen and affected vital organs.

The dead man was identified by Telam state news agency as Miguel Marcelo Yadón, a coordinator who works in the fiduciary of La Rioja’s federal electric transportation system. Telam says the men, who reportedly were friends since their teenage years, were shot at least six times.

https://apnews.com/e37a3af8645840c988b1ef76dbb3c410?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP

Notable: Twitter: 370k accounts suspended for promoting terrorism, 459k for child porn.

Twitter: 370k Accounts Suspended for Promoting Terrorism, 459K for Child Porn

Twitter’s new transparency report for the second half of 2018 said the social media giant suspended over 160,000 accounts for promoting terrorism during that period - a 19% drop from suspensions in the first half of the year.

From July to December 2018, Twitter suspended 166,513 accounts for violating the company's zero tolerance policy regarding the promotion of terrorism on its platform, according to a Thursday transparency report by the company. That was 19% less than the January-to-June period, during which it suspended 205,156 accounts for the offense.

"Of those suspensions, 91% consisted of accounts flagged by internal, purpose-built technological tools," the company wrote, noting that "In the majority of cases, we take action at the account setup stage — before the account even Tweets."

The company noted that year-on-year, they have observed a steady decrease in use of Twitter by terrorist organizations due to the company's detection and removal practices.

Twitter also said it suspended a whopping 458,989 accounts for "violations related to child sexual exploitation," noting that 96% were discovered by a "combination of technology solutions, including PhotoDNA and internal proprietary tools." This was down 6% from the previous report.

While the report notes that despite a 6% decline in legal requests for account information from the United States, that country still dominates requests worldwide, accounting for 30% of requests for information about Twitter accounts from both governmental and non-governmental sources. The company's interactive map shows the breakdown by US state.

https://sputniknews.com/science/201905091074866833-Twitter-370K-Accounts-Suspended-Promoting-Terrorism-2018/

Notable: Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.

Q CLOCK UPDATE - RE-READ CRUMBS

Today's Q Clock :38

[They] are afraid.

They are losing control of the message.

Who knows where the bodies are busied?

Rudy.

Now comes the pain.

Allison Mack [NXIVM] arrested [date]?

When does a bird sing?

Today's :25/:55 Q Clock Mirror :12

[HAITI].

[RED CROSS]

[CLASSIFIED]

WAR is real.

Good vs Evil is real.

The World is watching.

Enjoy the show.

Today's 180-Degree Q Clock Mirror :08

FBI (4) open investigations.

Did you witness the stage being set today?

BOOM

FAKE NEWS' purpose is to project FALSE NARRATIVES.

These accounts are held by BIG NAMES.

Scott Free > WWG1WGA!!!

At what point do people wake up?

THIS IS ABOUT SAVING AMERICA. WRWY N1LB FG&C WWG1WGA!

Notable: Stock Market Report

American Market Report

"Chaos" Sparks Stock Dump'n'Pump; Dollar & Bond Yields Slide

edited for the usual ZH bullshit-and it's alot

()and bold=additions

(this was a clean up the short's morning as the futures indicated they might be in the money for entire day…not so as the system needed the breathing room on the treasury market's, they got it early.)

China extended losses overnight with ChiNext down almost 10% already this week.

(and no word on them printing yet, methinks they already have and just have not announced it-they LOVE doing shit like that.)

Europe was ugly today led by France.

US Markets were rescued by some optimistic comments from Trump.

(beg to differ-they can't have down so the algo's search for anything they can to induce buying-that's to say your cat could have been optimistic and the High Frequency Trader's would latch on to it and send it higher-Lila did you learn to talk today?)

The Dow closed below its 50DMA for the second day (S&P broke below its 50DMA but managed to scramble back on (whatever we decided it was that caused it)

Credit markets continue to push notably wider.

(yes credit spread's are getting dangerously close to where they were just prior to 2008 action in September)

Treasury yields slipped lower on the day with the belly outperforming.

(the belly is medium term gov't debt)

The yield curve inverted once again today.

(tick….tock MF'ers)

And while we are in bond land, we note that Occidental bonds are sharply lower (as its stock hit a 10Y low) as it becomes evident that the company will win the very brief bidding tiff with Chevron for Anadarko - and will likely incur substantially more debt in the process.

(ooops and I'm sure Warren Buffet that faggot that he is is plenty habby)

Mixed day in commodity-land.

(oil, gold*, silver*, copper, wholesale gas, grains etc all pretty flat)

*But gold and silver diverged this afternoon.

(this due to the yuan and dollar movement's)

Finally, for all the "risk-on" crowd, keep an eye on global money supply, it's rolling over fast.

cap #4

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-09/headline-chaos-spark-dumpnpump-stocks-dollar-bond-yields-tumble

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=^DJI

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y?countrycode=bx

Notable: Republican Lawmakers Rip Own Party For Don Jr. Subpoena

Republican Lawmakers Rip Own Party For Don Jr. Subpoena

CST

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1126562038778597378

Several key GOP lawmakers criticized one of their own Wednesday after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Republican North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, issued a subpoena for Donald Trump Jr. to appear.

The subpoena, reportedly the first for one of the president’s children, was issued as a part of the Senate’s ongoing Russia investigation, and is expected to involve questions regarding Trump Jr.’s prior Senate testimony.

Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, attributed the move to the fact that the Senate’s rules and division of power requires more bipartisan cooperation than the House, where “whoever has the gavel has all the power.”

“I’m assuming that they believe they can — if you can believe this, they are going to take Cohen’s word. Cohen, who’s in jail, they are going to take his word,” Nunes told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “I think they want to bring Don Jr. in, from what I can tell, to see if he will keep the same story or admit to whether or not he talked to his father, blah, blah, blah, about the Trump Tower meeting.”

Nunes expressed his frustration that “nobody seems to be getting to the bottom of Fusion GPS’s involvement in the Trump Tower meeting.”

“Apparently the Republican chair of the Senate Intel Committee didn’t get the memo from the Majority Leader that this case was closed,” wrote Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/08/gop-lawmakers-donald-trump-jr-subpoena/

Notable: RR leaves exactly 2 years after Comey's firing

RR IS A WHITE HAT!!

President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice on February 1, 2017.

Trump letter to Comey (MAY 9, 2017) was recommended to be fired by AG and RR as Deputy Attorney General.

Rosenstein honored at Justice Department's farewell ceremony……TODAY - MAY 9, 2019!!!!!

Exactly TWO years from Comey's firing…….

Notable: , >>6456035 Photo IDs of Anne Getty and Cynthia Beck

>>6455663

No- that's ANN GETTY, not Cynthia Beck

Ann Getty, Gordon Getty, Beth Townsend pictured

Notable: Mueller spent $732,000 on private contractors but won’t say who they were

Stunning: Dirty Cop Mueller Spent $732,000 on Private Contractors for Special Counsel Investigation But Won’t Say Who They Were

Dirty Cop Robert Mueller used private contractors for his Special Counsel investigation but won’t say who they were.

Mueller spent $732,000 on outside contractors during the investigation. He believes he does not have to reveal who they were.

Many suspect he even used Fusion GPS to help with his investigation — the organization behind the junk Russia dossier who were being paid by the Democrat Party.

And Paul Sperry wrote today that Fusion GPS may have helped with writing the final report and hit piece on Trump

Mueller only hired hard left investigators for the probe on Trump and his campaign. Mueller did not look at the illegal spying on Trump. Mueller did not ever inspect the DNC servers that were allegedly ‘hacked.’ And Mueller knew there was no collusion but continued the investigation for another year anyway.

In November 2017 former DNC Chair Donna Brazile told Tucker Carlson the DNC servers were hacked by Russians – but the liberal party would not let the FBI investigate their servers.

She blamed Wasserman Schultz for blocking the FBI investigation of the servers.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/stunning-dirty-cop-mueller-spent-732000-on-private-contractors-for-special-counsel-investigation-but-wont-say-who-they-were/

Notable: , >>6455836 US aircraft carrier passes Suez Canal on Iran deployment

US aircraft carrier passes Suez Canal on Iran deployment

Agence-France Presse Agence-France Presse9 May 2019

American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln passed through the Suez Canal Thursday, Egyptian authorities said, as a US strike group heads towards the Gulf amid rising tensions between Washington and Tehran.

US President Donald Trump's national security advisor John Bolton on Sunday announced the deployment of an aircraft strike group and bomber task force in a "clear and unmistakable" message to Iran that it would respond to any attack on the US or its allies.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/us-aircraft-carrier-passes-suez-canal-iran-deployment-150529201–spt.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9yLnNlYXJjaC55YWhvby5jb20vX3lsdD1Bd3JDMXpHbGJkUmMuQWNBSHdyUXRETUQ7X3lsdT1YM29ETVRFeVkydHBObkpyQkdOdmJHOERZbVl4QkhCdmN3TXhCSFowYVdRRFFqYzNNVEZmTVFSelpXTURjM0ktL1JWPTIvUkU9MTU1NzQ1NDM3My9STz0xMC9SVT1odHRwcyUzYSUyZiUyZmF1Lm5ld3MueWFob28uY29tJTJmdXMtYWlyY3JhZnQtY2Fycmllci1wYXNzZXMtc3Vlei1jYW5hbC1pcmFuLWRlcGxveW1lbnQtMTUwNTI5MjAxLS1zcHQuaHRtbC9SSz0yL1JTPXBkQk9NV3dLeTRrLi5lVEFtQjFfZkkzTHFVYy0&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIl4EmHkUIE1UCVtiv10A0tg1j9XrusLxCAFF1XTgiTF46F-dqmESiVKfaGdcEVddNsT1Dzz4WqdBFTNX1VEBdCjmQ1n7gzJkcDm56XEYusMBOGCaFKa5UGDDkszpkCF0yyIjJnScVljopqgcJZ1ngRAsuZWKf5oa3xyd157Sjxh

Notable: , >>6455866 A revisit of who John Kerry was meeting with from Iran in May

A revisit of who John Kerry was meeting with from Iran in May

https://twitter.com/_jasonosborne/status/995667001451433984?s=21

Notable: Total degradation of our culture on full display in Toronto

I think this Toronto subway ad campaign is notable. Incase anyone didn’t realize we were presently in purgatory, ie the devil’s playground, ie hell’s heaven, ie perdition…. this should be an indication of such.

No culture can thrive with this sort of subversion. The end is near. This evil will bring about eternal good because it’s God’s plan but it’s frightening to see what man will do when left to the ways of the most wicked wills around.

Notable: , >>6455772 Clinton Foundation > No Ceilings Initiative (Kate Spade, etc)

>>6454974, >>6455143 Call to dig on Clinton Foundation, No Ceilings Initiative (lb)

Connections-

Via Clinton Foundation > No Ceilings Initiative (Kate Spade, etc)

HAITI

CEO Terri Mccullough > Nancy Pelosi Chief of Staff

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/08/mccullough-to-be-new-chief-of-staff-in-speakers-office-1213134

https://buzzjour.com/2019/03/08/terri-mccullough-to-be-new-chief-of-staff-in-speakers-office/

Notable: Iran in the news. Lots of Iran related Q drops line up on the clock

Iran Next?

Iran in the news.

Lots of Iran related Q drops line up on the clock.

Notable: Former Disney VP convicted of sexually abusing 7-year-old girl in Oregon

Former Disney VP convicted of sexually abusing 7-year-old girl in Oregon

komonews.com/news/local/former-disney-vp-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-7-year-old-girl-in-ore

Notable: On Cynthia Beck, Gordon Getty's mistress & 1,000 guns and firearms found

https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/cynthia-beck-gordon-getty-mistress-bel-air/

Notable: , >>6455823, >>6455912 FB co-founder calls for government to break it up

Facebook Co-Founder Calls for Government to Break Up Mark Zuckerberg’s Empire

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has called for the empire he helped Mark Zuckerberg to assemble to be broken up by the government. Taking it a step further, Hughes argues that the government should regulate big tech and control “acceptable speech” on social media. In an op-ed published in the New York Times titled “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook,” Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes called for further government regulation of the very social media platform that he helped to launch. Hughes states that despite not working at Facebook for more than 15 years, he feels a sense of “anger and responsibility” following Facebook’s recent privacy scandals. Hughes states that although he believes that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a good person, he has become increasingly worried over decisions made by Facebook and Zuckerberg in recent years. Hughes writes: Mark’s influence is staggering, far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government. He controls three core communications platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — that billions of people use every day. Facebook’s board works more like an advisory committee than an overseer, because Mark controls around 60 percent of voting shares. Mark alone can decide how to configure Facebook’s algorithms to determine what people see in their News Feeds, what privacy settings they can use and even which messages get delivered. He sets the rules for how to distinguish violent and incendiary speech from the merely offensive, and he can choose to shut down a competitor by acquiring, blocking or copying it. Mark is a good, kind person. But I’m angry that his focus on growth led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks. I’m disappointed in myself and the early Facebook team for not thinking more about how the News Feed algorithm could change our culture, influence elections and empower nationalist leaders. And I’m worried that Mark has surrounded himself with a team that reinforces his beliefs instead of challenging them.

Hughes then states that government intervention is the key to protecting user privacy across Facebook, stating: The government must hold Mark accountable. For too long, lawmakers have marveled at Facebook’s explosive growth and overlooked their responsibility to ensure that Americans are protected and markets are competitive. Any day now, the Federal Trade Commission is expected to impose a $5 billion fine on the company, but that is not enough; nor is Facebook’s offer to appoint some kind of privacy czar. After Mark’s congressional testimony last year, there should have been calls for him to truly reckon with his mistakes. Instead the legislators who questioned him were derided as too old and out of touch to understand how tech works. That’s the impression Mark wanted Americans to have, because it means little will change. We are a nation with a tradition of reining in monopolies, no matter how well intentioned the leaders of these companies may be. Mark’s power is unprecedented and un-American. It is time to break up Facebook.

Hughes doesn’t just want to break up the company, however, he wants the creation of an entirely new agency designed to regulate tech firms. Hughes argues this agency should also regulate free speech: Just breaking up Facebook is not enough. We need a new agency, empowered by Congress to regulate tech companies. Its first mandate should be to protect privacy. The Europeans have made headway on privacy with the General Data Protection Regulation, a law that guarantees users a minimal level of protection. A landmark privacy bill in the United States should specify exactly what control Americans have over their digital information, require clearer disclosure to users and provide enough flexibility to the agency to exercise effective oversight over time. The agency should also be charged with guaranteeing basic interoperability across platforms. Finally, the agency should create guidelines for acceptable speech on social media. This idea may seem un-American — we would never stand for a government agency censoring speech. But we already have limits on yelling “fire” in a crowded theater, child pornography, speech intended to provoke violence and false statements to manipulate stock prices. We will have to create similar standards that tech companies can use. These standards should of course be subject to the review of the courts, just as any other limits on speech are. But there is no constitutional right to harass others or live-stream violence.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/09/facebook-co-founder-calls-for-government-to-break-up-mark-zuckerbergs-empire/

Notable: , >>6455640 Unsealed: Daniel Everett Hale to appear in court today

Daniel Everett Hale, 31, is to appear in federal court in Nashville today.

An unsealed 17-page indictment charges him on multiple counts including obtaining and disclosing national defense information and theft of government property.

Notable: , >>6455812, >>6456170 On the latest fbi vault Clinton dump

screenshots from the latest fbi vault Clinton dump, proving she repeatedly asked aides to print classified material without the classification identifiers.

Moar screenshots proving her server contained classified information on CIA equities before the Chinese went on an assassination campaign of our assets

Notable: More on Hale & Scahill, former intelligence analyst charged (pb) >>6453922

>>6453922 - Former Intelligence Analyst Charged with Disclosing Classified Information/ pb & notables

According to the indictment, Hale approached Scahill at a Washington bookstore on April 29, 2013. Scahill was promoting a book on covert American operations abroad.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-intelligence-analyst-charged-with-leaking-drone-details-to-news-outlet/2019/05/09/19eeb9e2-7258-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html

Notable: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez propose limit on credit card interest rates

Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez propose limit on credit card interest rates

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pair of leading liberal Democrats proposed legislation on Thursday that would cap interest rates on credit cards and other consumer loans at 15 percent to help consumers grappling with growing credit card debt.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-creditcards/sanders-ocasio-cortez-propose-limit-on-credit-card-interest-rates-idUSKCN1SF1TB?il=0

Notable: Trump nominates Gen. Mark Milley as chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

Trump nominates Gen. Mark Milley as chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff | RT

First chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to serve a single four year term.

If the commies decide to torch the sanctuary cities…

Thank you RT! Best news site for US news!!!

https://www.rt.com/usa/445955-trump-nominate-milley-chief-of-staff/

Notable: Potus welcomes the Red SoCKS (Sox) to the Whitehouse at 3:45

Any of you fags see this?

Potus welcomes the Red SoCKS to the Whitehouse at 3:45

Socks > Sox

CKS X

Notable: NTIA chief David Redl resigns

NTIA chief David Redl resigns

Redl has been at the helm of NTIA, the body tasked with advising the Trump administration's telecom policy within the Department of Commerce, since November 2017.

Ajit Pai, the Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in a statement thanked Redl for his service and wished him "all the best in his future endeavors."

"David Redl is a longtime colleague, who served with distinction during his 18 months at NTIA," Pai said in a statement. "He was a vocal advocate within the Department of Commerce for repurposing federal spectrum for commercial use and fostering the private sector’s lead in 5G deployment. I thank David for his service and wish him all the best in his future endeavors.”

Redl was an adviser to Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) during his tenure as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/442943-ntia-chief-david-redl-resigns

Notable: JW filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ for records of the planning & preparation of the raid of the home of former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone

JW filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DOJ for records of the planning & preparation of the raid of the home of former Trump campaign aide Roger Stone

Notable: McMaster blasts former colleagues as 'danger to the Constitution'

McMaster blasts former colleagues as 'danger to the Constitution'

WTF?!

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/08/mcmaster-white-house-danger-to-the-constitution-1418268

Notable: Habbening - Doug Collins Set to Release Private Testimony of 53 People Next Week

Habbening - Doug Collins Set to Release Private Testimony of 53 People Next Week

Next may be big. Collins is planning a major dump of testimony.

Jeff Carlson @themarketswork

1) This relates to the 55 transcripts from the House Intelligence Committee's Russia Investigation.

These 55 transcripts are separate from those that have been released thus far.

They were sent to DNI Dan Coats for a declassification review in Oct '18.

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1126531662228013056

pic.twitter.com/Xr1etF5onn

Notable: Pelosi hints at more contempt charges against Trump administration officials

Pelosi hints at more contempt charges against Trump administration officials

Pelosi hints at more contempt charges against Trump administration officials

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said the House may vote on a package of contempt charges against the Trump administration in addition to the the contempt citation advanced against Attorney General William Barr by the House Judiciary Committee. “When we are ready we’ll come to the floor because there might be some other contempt of Congress issues we will want to deal with at the same time,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said, when asked at a news conference about the timing of House floor consideration of the Barr contempt charge.

Pelosi said she agrees with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who declared the nation is in a constitutional crisis because Congress does not have access to the unredacted Mueller report into Russian election interference. “Yes, I do agree with Chairman Nadler because the administration has decided they are not going to honor their oath of office,” Pelosi said.

The Judiciary panel voted along party lines to hold Barr in contempt for refusing to turn over the unredacted Mueller report, which he is prohibited by law from releasing. Nadler indicated at the hearing the contempt charge was aimed broadly at the Trump administration for refusing to cooperate with several House investigations into his business and family that Democrats are conducting.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/pelosi-hints-at-more-contempt-charges-against-trump-administration-officials

Notable: >>6455120 Pentagon and CIA using 'halo of blades' missile designed to kill terrorists but not civilians

Pentagon and CIA using 'halo of blades' missile designed to kill terrorists but not civilians

The Pentagon and CIA have developed a new missile designed to minimize civilian casualties when targeting terrorists. A modified Hellfire missile, it is called the R9X and carries 100 pounds of metal designed to cut through the tops of cars and buildings with "a halo of six long blades" that shred through anything in its path, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The R9X was used to kill Ahmad Hasan Abu Khayr al-Masr, al Qaeda’s second in command, in 2017 and, Jamal al-Badawi, implicated in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, on New Year's Day 2019. Former U.S. officials said they believed the existence of R9X should have been acknowledged years ago to send the message that the U.S. does not want to kill civilians. HUGE news via source.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pentagon-and-cia-use-previously-unknown-missile-designed-to-only-kill-terrorists-not-civilians

Notable: >>6455054, >>6455074, >>6455277 BREAKING: Trump calls for John Kerry to be prosecuted under the Logan Act for collusion with the Iranian government

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1126529672894980096

BREAKING: Trump calls for John Kerry to be prosecuted under the Logan Act for collusion with the Iranian government - @JackPosobiec

Lads, Notable or Fake & Gay?

Notable: >>6455064 Tyson Exec sells stock in midst of second major recall. Tyson Foods expands recall to almost 12 million pounds of chicken strips

Tyson Exec sells stock in midst of second major recall

Tyson Foods expands recall to almost 12 million pounds of chicken strips

Tyson Foods Opens a New Window. is recalling 11.8 million pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat chicken strips that may be contaminated with "extraneous materials," including metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said in a press release Opens a New Window. .

The recall Opens a New Window. is an expansion of a previous one in March that included 69,000 pounds of chicken strip products.

The meat producer said it extended the recall after two customers complained that they recently found extraneous materials in their chicken strips. Since March, the FSIS has had six complaints involving metal pieces, with three alleging oral injuries.

The recalled items with the establishment number "P-72221" were produced from October through March 8 with the "used by" dates of Oct. 1, 2019, through March 7, 2020.

The FSIS is urging customers with these products to throw them away or return them to the place of purchase and urged them not to consumer them.

Here are all the products included in the recall.

*Tyson fully cooked crispy chicken strips in 25-ounce and 40-ounce bags;

*Tyson fully cooked Buffalo-style chicken strips in 25-ounce and 40-ounce bags;

*Tyson fully cooked honey BBQ flavored chicken strips in 25-ounce bags;

*Best Choice Buffalo-style chicken strips in 20-ounce bags;

*Great Value fully cooked chicken strips in 25-ounce bags;

*Food Lion crispy chicken strips in 25-ounce bags.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/tyson-foods-recall-12-million-pounds-chicken-strips

https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/100493.htm

should be illegal to do this for two reason's:

1. Earnings season

2. Recall issue

Notable: >>6455143 Call to dig on Clinton Foundation, No Ceilings Initiative

>>6454962

Clinton Foundation

No Ceilings Initiative. A list to dig, perhaps.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/press-releases/clinton-foundations-no-ceilings-initiative-unveils-not-there-unprecedented

Notable: North Korean ship used to illicitly transport coal is seized over sanctions violation, US announces - FNC

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1126527666193088512

BREAKING: North Korean ship used to illicitly transport coal is seized over sanctions violation, US announces - FNC

Notable: NXIVM Trial on-goings

Ayla Ferrone takes NXIVM Trial on-goings - really Good Info!

(Audio clip was too big to embed here. It is 17 minutes.)

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I spoke with @PaulVandenburgh about the #NXIVM trial so far this morning on @TALK1300. #ICYMI check out the link below.

https://twitter.com/AylaFerrone/status/1126464315450642432

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Audio embedded in this tweet.

https://twitter.com/TALK1300/status/1126464083191042048

Notable: EU urges Iran to respect nuclear deal, regrets US sanctions

LOCATED KERRY

EU urges Iran to respect nuclear deal, regrets US sanctions

https://wtop.com/europe/2019/05/eu-urges-iran-to-respect-nuclear-deal-regrets-us-sanctions/

Notable: >>6455321 Intelligence analyst charged with leaking top-secret information to left-wing reporter Jeremy Scahill

Intelligence analyst charged with leaking top-secret information to left-wing reporter Jeremy Scahill

A former intelligence analyst and Afghanistan veteran has been charged with leaking classified information to the media. Daniel Everett Hale, 31, of Nashville, Tenn., was arrested on federal charges Thursday. The reporter that Hale leaked this information to is not named in the indictment, but the charging document identifies him as Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept, an outspoken critic of America’s military activities overseas.

Hale "printed off a series of Secret and Top Secret documents through his position with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, many of which he then provided to the reporter." The day that Hale is alleged to have met with the reporter at the reporter’s bookstore event, April 29, 2013, is the same day Scahill held a discussion and signing for his book Dirty Wars at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. The indictment states that in May 2013 Hale said the reporter “wants me to tell my story about working with drones at the opening screening of his documentary about the war and the use of drones." Scahill’s book accompanied a 2013 documentary of the same name that was critical of secretive U.S. military operations, including drone warfare. The indictment states that Hale again met the reporter at another book event on June 8, 2013 — the same day Scahill was hosted at Busboys & Poets for another discussion about Dirty Wars.

The indictment states that many of the classified documents were disclosed in an October 2015 news article. On Oct.15, 2015, Scahill published an article on the Intercept entitled “The Assassination Complex” and cited “a cache of secret slides that provides a window into the inner workings of the U.S. military’s kill/capture operations at a key time in the evolution of the drone wars.” Scahill wrote that the documents “were provided by a source within the intelligence community who worked on the types of operations and programs described in the slides. The Intercept granted the source’s request for anonymity because the materials are classified and because the U.S. government has engaged in aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers.”

Hale is charged with crimes, including “obtaining national defense information, retention and transmission of national defense information, causing the communication of national defense information, disclosure of classified communications intelligence information, and theft of government property.” Each of those charges carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. This is not the first time that the Intercept has been involved in a criminal leaks case. Reality Winner, a military contractor, was arrested in June 2017 for leaking classified information. The NSA document, which she leaked to the Intercept, was related to Russian efforts to hack into U.S. election systems. The Intercept published a story based on the document and was criticized for failing to protect Winner as a source. Betsy Reed, the Intercept’s editor-in-chief, eventually admitted that “at several points in the editorial process, our practices fell short of the standards to which we hold ourselves for minimizing the risks of source exposure when handling anonymously provided materials.” In August 2018, Winner was sentenced to over five years in prison.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/intelligence-analyst-charged-with-leaking-top-secret-information-to-left-wing-reporter-jeremy-scahill

Daniel Hale Indictment

https://www.scribd.com/document/409318747/Daniel-Hale-Indictment#from_embed

Notable: Seven banks face EU antitrust fines for forex rigging

Seven banks face EU antitrust fines for forex rigging: sources

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, JPMorgan and three other banks are set to be fined by EU antitrust regulators in the coming weeks for rigging the multitrillion dollar foreign exchange market, two people familiar with the matter said.

The other three lenders are Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS and a small Japanese bank, the people said. The banks will see a 10 percent cut in their fines for admitting wrongdoing.

In contrast, Credit Suisse, which has previously said it did not find any evidence of misconduct, is fighting the EU antitrust charge. It is not clear if the European Commission will be able to finalize the case in time to levy a fine against the Swiss bank in the coming weeks.

The EU antitrust enforcer, which has been investigating the case over the last six years and could hand out fines up to 10 percent of a company’s global turnover for breaching EU rules, declined to comment.

Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan and Royal Bank of Scotland declined to comment. HSBC had no immediate comment.

It is possible the EU could space out its rulings against the banks over several weeks rather than lump them together in one day, the people said.

Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS have entered related guilty pleas in a U.S. case, and been collectively fined more than $2.8 billion.

U.S. regulators said the foreign exchange rate rigging was allegedly done through chat rooms with such names as “The Cartel,” “The Mafia” and “The Bandits’ Club,” through tactics with such names as “front running,” “banging the close,” “painting the screen” and “taking out the filth.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-antitrust-banks/seven-banks-face-eu-antitrust-fines-for-forex-rigging-sources-idUSKCN1SF1VJ?il=0

Notable: Killary twat w/CAP

@HillaryClinton

Thank you to all the students at @dartmouth for their thoughtful questions yesterday on everything from Iran and China to AI and the place of social media in our news environment. This generation doesn’t miss a beat.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1126523769831477248

Notable: Trump Administration to require drug companies to list drug prices in advertising.

Trump Administration to require drug companies to list drug prices in advertising.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/08/trump-administration-requires-big-pharma-to-list-drug-prices-in-tv-ads/

THIS IS HUGE!

Anything over $35/month must be stated in both list price and expected out of pocket price.

E.g. Harvoni - new antiviral for hep c which they are advertising left and right on TV because about 10% of boomers have hep c.

it costs almost $95,000 for a 11 week treatment - yes

NINETY FIVE THOUSAND

and doctors prescribe it like it is nothing

so expensive - no pharmacies will carry it unless paid up front

I spent decades in pharmacy and big pharma research

No lie

HUGE

sorry to be so enthusiastic and all but seriously

HUGE!!!

t.pharmanon

Notable: Rep. Jerry Nadler on Mueller: "We will subpoena him if we have to."

From late last bread.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1126517433034928130

Notable: Who Were the Mueller Report's Hired Guns? (Fusion GPS)?

Did Mueller Hire Contractors (Fusion GPS) to Investigate and Write His Report?

Holy shit. This could be huge. It's possible Mueller was using Fusion GPS and Steele to investigate and write the final report. Even deputized them.

By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations

May 9, 2019

Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show, but his office refuses to say who they were. While it’s not unusual for special government offices to outsource for services such as computer support, Mueller also hired contractors to compile “investigative reports” and other “information."

The arrangement has led congressional investigators, government watchdog groups and others to speculate that the private investigators and researchers who worked for the special counsel’s office might have included Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the private research firm that hired Steele to produce the Russia collusion dossier for the Clinton campaign.

They suspect the dossier creators may have been involved in Mueller’s operation – and even had a hand in his final report – because the special counsel sent his team to London to meet with Steele within a few months of taking over the Russia collusion investigation in 2017. Also, Mueller’s lead prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann, had shared information he received from Fusion with the media.

…

Several law enforcement and Hill sources who spoke with RCI also believe Steele and Fusion GPS were deputized in the investigation.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/05/08/who_were_the_mueller_reports_hired_guns.html

Notable: >>6454381 anons dig on HRC asking Huma to print without classification identifiers

HRC asking Huma to print without classification identifiers

Notable: Raytheon Shoots Down Multiple Drones With Directed Laser Weapon

Raytheon Shoots Down Multiple Drones With Directed Laser Weapon

Raytheon Company has successfully shot down multiple drones using its advanced high powered microwave (HPM) and mobile high energy laser (HEL) weapon systems, stated the company press release Tuesday.

The directed-energy weapon system was paired with Raytheon's Multi-spectral Targeting System, using sensors that directed microwaves and lasers to blast enemy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) out of the sky during a field training exercise. Mounted on a Polaris MRZR 4 all-terrain vehicle, the system was extremely portable and could traverse almost any terrain.

"Countering the drone threat requires diverse solutions," said Stefan Baur, Raytheon Electronic Warfare Systems vice president. "HEL and HPM give frontline operators options for protecting critical infrastructure, convoys and personnel."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-03/raytheon-shoots-down-multiple-drones-directed-laser-weapon

Notable: Secretary Pompeo Postpones Travel to Greenland

Secretary Pompeo Postpones Travel to Greenland

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2019/05/291567.htm

Notable: Amazon accused of using Echo Dot Kids to illegally collect data on children

Amazon accused of using Echo Dot Kids to illegally collect data on children

A coalition of 19 consumer and privacy groups plans to file a complaint Thursday alleging that Amazon’s Echo Dot Kids Edition is illegally collecting voice recordings and other identifying information on users under 13 and that the system’s parental controls are flawed. The complaint says that the Echo Dot Kids Edition – a colorful, youth-oriented version of Amazon’s popular “smart speaker” systems that allow users to ask questions, play music or control thermostats with voice commands – violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA. The 1998 law sharply limits what data companies can collect without permission from parents.

The 98-page complaint is the latest in a series by consumer and privacy groups urging the Federal Trade Commission to intensify its enforcement of how leading technology companies treat children and their personal data. The Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University Law Center served as counsel to the groups on the complaint. Unlike some previous cases, there is little dispute that Amazon’s device, which has a sticker price of about $70 but sometimes is offered for less, should be covered by COPPA. The sign-on procedure mentions the law and requests parental permission for collecting data from children.

But a draft of the complaint cites a number of alleged failings, including that the permissions need to be more specific and that the online portal lacks an effective system for verifying that a parent is the one providing approval for a child’s use of the device. The complaint also alleges that Amazon keeps children’s voice recordings longer than necessary and that the tools allowing parents to delete recordings do not work properly. The result, according to a draft of the complaint, is that Amazon could collect a wide range of information from children – names, birth dates, home addresses, phone numbers – without parents knowing or being able to delete it. The complaint also says that the Echo Dot Kids Edition allows outside developers, whose “skills” on the service resemble the apps familiar to users of mobile devices, to collect data in ways that lack transparency and potentially violate COPPA. Amazon spokeswoman Kinley Pearsall said the Echo Dot Kids Edition is “compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act,” but her statement did not address any of the specific issues raised in the complaint.

The FTC, which declined to comment on the planned complaint against Amazon, has settled 30 cases against companies for allegedly violating COPPA over the past two decades. The commission also updated the rules governing compliance in 2013 to impose restrictions on the collection of newer technologies, such as online voice and video clips, that could identify children under 13. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., one of the original authors of COPPA, plans to send a letter Thursday to the FTC urging action regarding the Echo Dot Kids Edition. “Children are a uniquely vulnerable population,” Markey planned to write, according to a draft of the letter. “We urge the Commission to take all necessary steps to ensure their privacy.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/08/amazon-accused-of-using-echo-dot-kids-to-illegally-collect-data-on-children/

Notable: Filmmaker to Testify Against Accused Head of New York Sex Cult

A filmmaker who spent 12 years in a secretive New York group that prosecutors say evolved into a sex cult is set to testify for a second day on Thursday against its former leader who faces charges that include sex trafficking.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2019-05-09/jury-to-hear-from-whistleblower-in-new-york-sex-cult-trial

Notable: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says Mark Zuckerberg is too powerful and the government should force the 'dangerous' social network to break up

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7010553/Facebook-founder-Chris-Hughes-says-Mark-Zuckerberg-powerful.html

Notable: The Hill runs hit piece on 'QAnon' (video)

New Qanon hit piece

QAnon spoils school fundraiser via

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/442885-qanon-spoils-school-fundraiser

Notable: BASED: Students walk out of Colorado school shooting vigil, saying their trauma was being politicized

Students walk out of Colorado school shooting vigil, saying their trauma was being politicized

Sauce: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/09/colorado-school-shooting-vigil-students-walk-out-protest/1150282001/

Notable: OPEC in the dark on oil supply as Russia, Iran cut exports

OPEC in the dark on oil supply as Russia, Iran cut exports

DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC is in the dark on the oil supply outlook for the second half of this year, with Iranian and Russian outages looking increasingly significant but Saudi Arabia reluctant to pump more due to fears of a price crash, sources in the organization said.

An oil contamination forced Russia to halt flows along the Druzhba pipeline, a key conduit for crude into Eastern Europe and Germany, in April. The suspension left refiners scrambling to find supplies and its duration is unclear.

Iran’s oil exports are likely to drop further in May as the United States tightens the screw on Tehran’s main source of income. Shipments from Venezuela, also under U.S. sanctions, could fall more in coming weeks.

The dearth of information is a headache for OPEC and allies led by Russia, which gather in June to decide whether to renew a supply-cutting deal. A panel of ministers meets on May 19 in Saudi Arabia to discuss the market and make recommendations.

Two delegates from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said the Russian outage, on top of Iranian and Venezuelan export losses, would be discussed at the Jeddah meeting and it seemed more than a short-term technical glitch.

“It’s potentially significant,” one of the delegates said of the pipeline halt.

Still, the delegate added, the price of Brent crude - close to $70 a barrel, down from a 2019 high of $75.60 last month - suggested traders saw no major risk of any shortage.

Other OPEC sources said there were conflicting views on the significance of the Russian outage, and that the complexity of Russia’s pipeline system meant the issue was not straightforward.

“I’m not quite seeing the impact in terms of supply shortage,” another OPEC delegate said.

SUPPLY DROP

Analysts at Citigroup saw the Russian export loss as enough to affect the balance between supply and demand.

“While it is still difficult to assess the final impacts on balances, the severity of the problem could mean up to 400,000 bpd (barrels per day) of Russian exports could be pulled out of the market for longer than earlier anticipated,” they wrote.

That would further tighten the market, with OPEC signaling even before the Druzhba outage that demand would exceed supply by more than 800,000 bpd in the third quarter.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-opec/opec-in-the-dark-on-oil-supply-as-russia-iran-cut-exports-idUSKCN1SF1LV?il=0

and nothing to do with the $12b in bond's shoved out the door for aramco either

Notable: Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts for terrorism content in second half 2018

Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts for terrorism content in second half 2018

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Twitter is making headway in tackling online terrorism content on its platform as it suspended over 166,000 accounts in the second half of last year, about a fifth less than in the previous period, the social media company said on Thursday. Together with Facebook and Google, Twitter is under pressure from regulators and governments worldwide to remove extremist content more rapidly or face more heavy-handed legislation.

Announcing its latest transparency report, the company said its technical tools were producing results, with 91 percent of accounts promoting terrorism content proactively suspended by its internal technology, the majority of which happened before their first tweet because the data used to set them up raised red flags. Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts between July and December last for promoting terrorism, a 19 percent drop from the 205,156 accounts suspended in the previous six months.

“This sharp decrease is indicative of a larger trend we are now observing — year-on-year the numbers of terrorist organizations attempting to use our service is reducing,” Sinead McSweeney, Twitter’s vice president for public policy said in a statement. “This can be attributed to a robust technical approach that we’ve enhanced over many years. We are encouraged by these metrics but will remain vigilant,” she said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-suspended-166153-accounts-for-terrorism-content-in-second-half-2018-idUSKCN1SF1LN?il=0

Notable: Swedish prosecutor to give decision on Assange rape investigation on Monday

Swedish prosecutor to give decision on Assange rape investigation on Monday

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden’s state prosecutor will announce next Monday whether or not she will reopen a preliminary investigation into a rape allegation against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. “At (a) press conference, the prosecutor will announce her decision, which will formally be made immediately before the press conference,” the Prosecution Authority said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wikileaks-assange-sweden/swedish-prosecutor-to-give-decision-on-assange-rape-investigation-on-monday-idUSKCN1SF1MA?il=0

Notable: Universities nationwide remove historical artwork deemed offensive

>>6453902

TRENDING: Universities nationwide remove historical artwork deemed offensive

https://www.thecollegefix.com/trending-universities-nationwide-remove-historical-artwork-deemed-offensive/

Some of you maybe aware of Benjamin Banneker's historic letter to Thomas Jefferson on August 19, 1791, arguing eloquently that "…however variable we may be in Society or religion, however, diversifyed in Situation or colour, we are all of the Same Family, and Stand in the Same relation to him [God]."

I wonder if any of you have ever read Jefferson's response? I had not until last night when I discovered it by accident. I was looking for a book for my son on my bookshelf and I stumbled across an old library book titled "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson." I then remembered that I had bought it for $1 at a local library give away some years ago. By chance, I happened to open the book to page 932 and there it was. I then did a google search to find it online so that I wouldn't have to retype it for this post.

The search results shocked me, but were informative. Page after page of high school and college course assignments all about Banneker's historic letter to Jefferson and how he cleverly employed rhetorical strategies to prove Jefferson to be a "hypocrite." But none of these sites ever mentioned Jefferson's response.

After refining my search, I finally found it.

https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/benjamin-banneker

In his reply to Banneker on August 30, Jefferson wrote,

"No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black bretheren, talents equal to those of the other colours of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence both in Africa and America…I have taken the liberty of sending your almanac to Monsieur de Condorcet…because I considered it as a document to which your whole colour had a right for their justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them."2

The same day, Jefferson wrote to the Marquis de Condorcet:

"I am happy to be able to inform you that we have now in the United States a negro, the son of a black man born in Africa, and of a black woman born in the United States, who is a very respectable Mathematician. I procured him to be employed under one of our chief directors in laying out the new federal city on the Patowmac, and in the intervals of his leisure, while on that work, he made an Almanac for the next year, which he sent me in his own handwriting, and which I enclose to you. I have seen very elegant solutions of Geometrical problems by him. Add to this that he is a very worthy and respectable member of society. He is a free man."3

It should go without saying that it saddens me deeply on behalf of all peoples that young Americans, comprising the "1%" of those most free and privileged on our planet, the vast majority of which who have never read any of Jefferson's writings, including the most sacred of all, the Declaration of Independence, are so possessed and deluded by destructive ideology that they are actively calling for the destruction of his statues and memorials.

What is even less known among our youth is that Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence was revised by the Continental Congress to eliminate the justifiable attack on King George for encouraging the slave trade…(see image)

Jefferson knew that such compromises with principle struck at the heart of the nation’s security and integrity. In 1820, six years before his death, he wrote these melancholy words:

"But this momentous question (slavery), like a fire bell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776 to acquire self-government and happiness to their country is to be thrown away, and my only consolation is to be that I live not to weep over it."

What is indisputable is that this "slave owner" penned words of Truth so powerful that it laid the foundation for liberty worldwide, not only for African Americans, but for countless other oppressed peoples around the world, many of which who came here with nothing, worked hard to learn our language and history, so that they too could be known as "Americans."

We all need to come together as Americans now more than ever before and stand united against those malevolent forces which seek to divide and destroy us.

Notable: Epstein continuing illegal construction on Great St. James despite stop-work order, threat of fines

Epstein continuing illegal construction on Great St. James despite stop-work order, threat of fines

Multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been forging ahead with building activity on the island of Great St. James, flouting efforts by the V.I. government to force him to comply with the territory’s environmental protection laws.

Jean-Pierre Oriol, commissioner nominee for the V.I. Department of Planning and Natural Resources, said Tuesday that the department’s division of Coastal Zone Management issued Epstein a stop-work order on Dec. 21.

Despite that order, construction activity on the island has been ongoing and includes “an excessive amount of additional roadways that have been carved out on the island, there have been two jetties, fill material has been placed into the submerged lands, so there’s evidence of work going beyond what was initially applied for. The exact amount of things is still yet to be determined,” Oriol said.

Oriol said the department, which regulates building activity in environmentally sensitive areas and issues permits for planned construction, is limited in its ability to make Epstein stop violating the territory’s laws.

FULL ARTICLE SOURCE

https://outline.com/f2Y6fC

Notable: No Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans Publicly Stand Up for Richard Burr’s Rogue Donald Trump Jr. Subpoena

No Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans Publicly Stand Up for Richard Burr’s Rogue Donald Trump Jr. Subpoena

What the heck is Sen. Richard Burr's deal? He hardly seems to fit the template of your typical backstabbing RINO.

Even if the Trump Jr. subpoena is some kind of trap being set, it's hard to see how the optics would work out favorably as a result of "bipartisan support" for this nonsense. I'm guessing the cabal must have some kind of leverage over him.

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Not one GOP senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee was willing to publicly align himself or herself on Wednesday evening with the panel’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), after Burr made the determination, against indications from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to issue a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr. to testify again on the Russia probe.

News broke late Wednesday afternoon that Burr had issued Trump, Jr. a subpoena to try to compel the president’s eldest son to testify again. The subpoena is in contravention of a previous promise Burr made to Trump, Jr. that he would only need to testify once and would not be subpoenaed, and it contradicts McConnell’s edict on Tuesday that the Russia hoax is “case closed” after two years of investigating with no evidence of collusion or obstruction.

Condemnation rained down upon Burr quickly and swiftly from across the Republican Party, as Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy both ripped him for the subpoena, as did Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) and Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, who served as chair for the first two years of Trump’s presidency, as well as many others in the Trump universe.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/08/no-senate-intelligence-committee-republicans-publicly-stand-up-for-richard-burrs-rogue-donald-trump-jr-subpoena/

Notable: Amazon Hit By "Serious" Hack, Resulting In "Extensive" Fraud, Cash Stolen From Merchants

Amazon Hit By "Serious" Hack, Resulting In "Extensive" Fraud, Cash Stolen From Merchants

We recently documented how Amazon has come under fire from its merchants for allegedly trying to undercut them on pricing and products. Now, the e-commerce giant is under scrutiny for a different reason: security. Amazon is now saying it was hit by an "extensive" fraud last year, revealing in court documents that hackers were able to transfer funds from merchant accounts over the course of six months, according to Bloomberg.

The "serious" online attack included hackers breaking into about 100 seller accounts and moving cash from loans or sales into their own bank accounts. The hack took place between May 2018 and October 2018, according to Amazon’s lawyers.

Amazon said it was still looking into the compromised accounts and that it believed hackers changed the details on its Seller Central platform to bank accounts in their name. Amazon believes that the accounts were compromised by phishing techniques that looked for login information. Amazon has reportedly concluded its investigation of the incident.

Lawyers for the online retailer asked a judge in London to approve searches of account statements at Barclays and Prepay, two banks that "have become innocently mixed up in the wrongdoing." Amazon says that it needed the documents “to investigate the fraud, identify and pursue the wrongdoers, locate the whereabouts of misappropriated funds, bring the fraud to an end and deter future wrongdoing."

The filing doesn’t denote how the suspected wrongdoers were able to add new bank account information to merchant accounts. Amazon has issued more than $1 billion in loans to merchants and one of the units named in the filing was Amazon Capital Services U.K., a division of the company responsible for making these loans.

The dollar amount stolen by the hackers has not been disclosed but the incident could mark the latest in a series of incidents that may deter merchants from using Amazon to sell goods. In an April report, we detailed how Amazon merchants were feeling more and more like they were on the wrong end of a lopsided deal with the company, which has been selling its own brand of "Basics" that often undercut its own merchants.

One vendor interviewed, Jason Boyce, has been wary of regulation as small business owner. Despite this, he was willing to consider proposed regulations by Senator Elizabeth Warren that would prevent Amazon from competing against its merchants. Boyce said: “If you’re going to have a marketplace, you shouldn’t be able to piggyback off the hard work and labor of your sellers to beat them.”

“Amazon crushes small companies by copying the goods they sell on the Amazon Marketplace and then selling its own branded version,” Senator Warren has previously said.

Boyce, a former Marine Corps officer, started selling his product - basketball hoops - online in 2002. In 2004, he got a call from Amazon who said that they "liked" his products and he began to list them on the site. But over the next few years, his experience on Amazon resulted in competitors entering in the market and pushing down prices. So, like a good businessman, he pivoted to other products, developing his own line of foosball tables, air hockey tables, bocce ball sets and exercise equipment.

Then, in 2009, Amazon started selling its own products, Amazon Basics. Among its offerings, Amazon started selling bocce ball sets that cost $15 less than Boyce’s, and giving them ideal page space to win the shopper looking for the lowest price.

“They’re pulling market share away from us and our competitors as well,” Boyce said. Now, it appears merchants are having their money pulled from them, too.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-09/amazon-hit-serious-hack-resulting-extensive-fraud-cash-stolen-merchants

Notable: DoD twat - "Climb over your mid-day slump!"

Climb over your mid-day slump!🏃‍♂️

twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1126426583772712961

Notable: Anon charts "Change to Offense" in May

Sharing a visual conception focused on Q3331, mapping the month of May’s implied reversal of direction, going from defense to offense.

Captures the following ideas:

(a) POTUS trolling by having 2 “FFs” happen before the intended “narrative shift”.

(b) POTUS’ increase in the month of May of retweets, heavily pointing to the visual element of the retweet symbol – reversal.

(c) A cluster of Tweets by POTUS in May that reference reversal or change of direction.

(d) Alteration of standard practice of POTUS chronologically tweeting 2 part Tweets to begin tweeting the parts in reverse chronological sequence.

(e) POTUS referencing “monitoring” and “watching closely” to tip off anons to the visual element of his actions as well as hinting at Tweet structure significance by saying he will “take a hard look” at “infrastructure”.

Attached image is sizeable; try MS Paint to display if legibility issues.

Majority of the populace in anon's foreign nation have a derisive opinion of President Trump, but the evidence suggests the man and his team are clearly fuggin’ inventive geniuses.

Notable: EU will not accept ultimatums - remains committed to Iran nuclear deal

http://archive.is/ZtClY

EU rejects any ultimatums after Iran's move on nuclear deal

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union and the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain on Thursday said they were still committed to the Iran nuclear deal but would not accept ultimatums after Iran announced it was scaling back curbs to its nuclear program.

After Tehran’s announcement and threat to take more action that could violate the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed new sanctions on Iran, targeting revues from exports of its industrial metals.

“We reject any ultimatums and we will assess Iran’s compliance on the basis of Iran’s performance regarding its nuclear-related commitments under the JCPOA and the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons),” the statement read, with JCPOA referring to the Iran nuclear deal.

They said they regretted the re-imposition of sanctions by the United States and added that they remained committed to preserving and fully implementing the Iran nuclear deal.

“We are determined to continue pursuing efforts to enable the continuation of legitimate trade with Iran,” said the European states, adding that included getting a special purpose vehicle aimed at enabling business with Iran off the ground.

A year ago, Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal signed by Iran, Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany and the United States.

The accord relaxed international sanctions on Iran in return for Tehran accepting curbs on its nuclear program that were designed to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. Tehran has said it pursued only a peaceful nuclear program

Notable: Fast and Furious Settlement entered into DC Court

‘Fast And Furious’ Settlement Entered Into DC Court

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Hours after House Judiciary Committee Democrats voted to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress for withholding parts of the Mueller report, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the House Oversight Committee settled the 2012 contempt case against the DOJ. The case, related to the “Fast and Furious” document subpoena demanded of Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder when Republicans held the majority, is now considered settled, since Democrats became the majority in the lower chamber and Elijah Cummings became Oversight Committee Chairman.

According to court documents, settlement negotiations first began January 2017 during the 115th Congress. By March 7, 2018, the Justice Department and the Oversight Committee signed a conditional settlement agreement with certain conditions, which included that the court would vacate certain rulings at issue on remand. However, the court ruled last October that it would not vacate the rulings. Following a subsequent lapse in appropriations for the DOJ and the election of Cummings as Chair, “the parties resumed settlement negotiations in early February 2019. The parties informed this Court on April 4, 2019, that they had ‘made substantial progress towards a negotiated solution.’”

The settlement agreement includes that the Oversight Committee “will take all necessary steps to voluntarily dismiss its appeal with prejudice in Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the United States House of Representatives v. Barr, No. 16-5078 (D.C. Cir.), marking the termination of all civil litigation between the parties arising out of the complaint filed by the Committee…”

The case with which Holder was charged with contempt by the House sprung from a botched federal gun-tracking program that came to light in 2010. Known as “Operation Fast and Furious” by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the gun-walking program came out of the Arizona field office. Federal investigators set the program up so licensed firearms dealers could sell guns to illegal straw purchasers and the U.S. government could track the firearms to Mexican cartel leaders, arrest them and dismantle their operations.

However, in 2010 it came to light that the guns that ATF was supposed to track turned up at Mexican crime scenes where vicious murders took place and at the site where U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was slain by Mexican gang members in December of that year.

Holder was charged by the House with two separate contempt resolutions—criminal and civil—for withholding documents related to the Fast and Furious case. The criminal contempt charge was never prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney in D.C., as he served at the pleasure of Holder at the time. The civil charge, though, was a different matter and remained litigated in the court for the past seven years. The charges against Holder also stemmed from his testimony before Congress, when he claimed he was unaware of the operation until a few weeks before he came to testify. However, leaked documents from the Justice Department showed that he was informed of the matter for months.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/08/fast-and-furious-settlement-dc-court/

Notable: Reminder - John Brennan's history as traitor and Hussein/No Name/HRC passport connection

Got sidetracked and stumbled on this:

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John Brennan- TRAITOR

excerpt fom archives (pb) >>5793275

Brennan became deputy executive director of the CIA in March 2001. In about 2005, about the time that the bankers were interviewing Obama as presidential material, Brennan left government service and became the Chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) and the CEO of The Analysis Corporation (TAC) now known as Sotera Defense Solutions, quite conceivably a CIA front. At the same time, Brennan began working with the Obama 2008 presidential campaign as Obama's top intelligence adviser.

In March 2008, officials cited The Analysis Corporation for penetrating the files of presidential candidates Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain in the State Department's passport office. Investigators maintain that the target of this illegal activity was Obama's passport file for the sole purpose of cleansing the records of information that would jeopardize his candidacy.

Notable: Denver Students storm out of vigil for shooting victims B/C antigun BS

THIS IS AWESOME.

The Dem politicians tried to use the school shooting vigil in order to spew their antigun BS. Some of the students decided they were not going to play the dems and media's games.

What kind of assholes would allow these politicians to use a vigil as a platform/stage to further their crazy agenda?

That seems like the only reason why they cared or even bothered to attend.

That is really to use this tragedy in such a sick way( for political gain)

The people/ even kids are waking up to the dems and msms's bullshit.

SO PROUD OF THESE STUDENTS, GOD BLESS THEM.

Bennet is a POS SCUMBAG

Also, how fucked up is it , to not allow the very students the vigil is for, to have a chance to speak.

THESE PEOPLE ARE SICK, AND PEOPLE ARE SEEING IT.

Students storm out of vigil for Denver school shooting victims chanting 'mental health' in protest at groups 'politicizing' their grief after speeches by pro-gun control lawmakers

Vigil for victims of Denver school shooting turned into protest Wednesday night

Pro-gun control student group at neighboring school had organized the event and invited Democrat politicians to speak

But STEM High School students became angry when they were denied the microphone and stormed out, chanting 'mental health'

They eventually returned and accused politicians of exploiting their tragedy

An emotional vigil for one student who was killed and the eight who were wounded during the Denver school shooting turned into an angry protest Wednesday night.

The vigil, held at Highlands Ranch High School, which is close to the tragic STEM School Highlands Ranch, was organized by student gun control group Team Enough.

Democrat congressmen Michael Bennet and Jason Crow were invited to speak, while STEM students were invited to attend the vigil - one of two that took place yesterday.

But, as the political speeches wore on, STEM students became frustrated that they had not been allowed to take the microphone and stormed out

The students paraded out of the venue holding up lighted cellphones, chanting 'mental health' and shouting expletives at the media.

They eventually made their way back into the gym where students were allowed to take the microphone and get their message across

'What has happened at STEM is awful. But it’s not a statistic. We can’t be used as a reason for gun control. We are people not a statement,' one said in footage broadcast by KUSA.

Another added: 'We wanted Kendrick to be mourned. We wanted all of you to join us in that mourning, but that was not allowed here. We all walked out. We were not kicked out.'

Tuesday's shooting was the 11th on an American campus so far this year and the fourth in Colorado since Columbine.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7006093/The-Latest-Students-used-2-handguns-Colorado-shooting.html

The last pic( guy with white beard is)

Colorado State Rep Tom Sullivan, D-Aurora, center, applauds for speakers during the vigil

Other 2 people is Sen Michael Bennet( blue polka dot tie) and Rep Jason Crow ( red tie)

Notable: Maxine Waters seeks to weigh in on BB&T/Sun Trust Merger

Maxine Waters seeks to weigh in on BB&T, SunTrust merger

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters is seeking for her committee to have its own say in a major planned bank merger. The California Democrat asked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairwoman Jelena McWilliams Wednesday to defer approval of the proposed merger between BB&T Bank and SunTrust Bank until her committee can hold hearings on the subject. If the merger goes through, it would result in the eighth largest bank in the country by total assets.

“[T]he proposed merger warrants serious scrutiny from Congress,” Waters wrote in a letter to the regulators. “This is especially true given the rubber-stamping bank merger applications receive from regulators demonstrated by the recent data regarding the Federal Reserve’s reviews."

Waters raised the fear that the merger would harm community banks, black farmers, and lead to layoffs and branch closures. The Fed and FDIC conducted two public hearings, one in Charlotte, N.C., the other in Atlanta, Ga., and are accepting public comments on the merger. If the merger receives regulatory approval and moves forward, the combined bank would control over $440 billion in total assets.

Congressional Democrats have accused bank regulators of rubber-stamping bank mergers, an accusation Powell has pushed back on. In a 2018 letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Powell acknowledged bank regulators rejected only three of the 3,819 bank merger applications it received between 2006 and the end of 2017. But Powell also noted that 503 additional applications were withdrawn by banks before the Fed made a formal decision on the application, implying that most or all of those applications would have been rejected. Waters asked for a written response to her letter by May 15. The committee has a hearing on how regulators oversee large banks and other depository institutions scheduled for May 16.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/maxine-waters-seeks-to-weigh-in-on-bb-t-suntrust-merger

Notable: Clockfag checks in on "Media Cleanse"

May 8th 2019 lines up on the :37 mark across to :07 and Feb 12th 2018.

"The media cleanse"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-white-house-has-revoked-my-press-pass-its-not-just-me–its-curtailing-access-for-all-journalists/2019/05/08/bb9794b4-71c0-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html?utm_term=.e7e6cdf7291f

Notable: Kennedys write pro-vaccine op-ed to counter RFK Jr.'s anti-vax

Kennedys write pro-vaccine op-ed to counter RFK Jr.'s advocacy

May 8 (UPI) – The debate over vaccines has driven a wedge through the Kennedys, with several prominent family members writing an op-ed blasting Robert Kennedy Jr. for his anti-vaccination views. Robert Kennedy Jr. has been an outspoken critic of vaccinations, prompting Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Maeve Kennedy McKean to write an op-ed in Politico saying he is wrong. McKean, executive director of Georgetown University's Global Health Initiatives, is Kennedy's niece, while Townsend, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, and Joseph P. Kennedy II, a former congressman, are his siblings.

"We love Bobby. He is one of the great champions of the environment," the Kennedys wrote. "We stand behind him in his ongoing fight to protect our environment. However, on vaccines he is wrong. And his and others' work against vaccines is having heartbreaking consequences."

More than 700 cases of measles have been reported in the United States in 2019. In Maine, there were 41 new cases of whooping cough, another disease that had been largely eradicated. The problem is, the Kennedys said, many patients are more afraid of the vaccine than the disease itself. "Americans have every right to be alarmed about the outbreak of measles in pockets of our country with unusually high rates of unvaccinated citizens, especially children," the Kennedys wrote. "Right now, officials in 22 states are grappling with a resurgence of the disease, which was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000."

An estimated 170 million children worldwide haven't been vaccinated over the last decade, the United Nations children's agency estimated. The biggest reason is the anti-vaccine movement, a UNICEF report said. "The ground for the global measles outbreaks we are witnessing today was laid years ago," UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said. "The measles virus will always find unvaccinated children. If we are serious about averting the spread of this dangerous but preventable disease, we need to vaccinate every child, in rich and poor countries alike." Vaccines are eliminating a wide range of other diseases, including mumps, rubella, hepatitis, tetanus, influenza and HPV.

President John F. Kennedy signed the Vaccination Assistance Act in 1962 to eliminate diseases in preschool-age children. Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy were both champions of healthcare and community health centers. "Those who delay or refuse vaccinations, or encourage others to do so, put themselves and others, especially children, at risk," the Kennedys wrote. "It is in all our interests to make sure that immunizations reach every child on the globe through safe, effective and affordable vaccines."

Two Los Angeles area universities went into quarantine last month because of measles cases. The crowdfunding site Indiegogo banned anti-vaccine fundraisers in April. A scientology cruise ship with 300 people on board was quarantined in the Caribbean Sea after a positive case of measles last week.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/05/08/Kennedys-write-pro-vaccine-op-ed-to-counter-

Notable: Sri Lanka: U.S. official injured in Easter Sunday bombings has died

Sri Lanka: U.S. official injured in Easter Sunday bombings has died

May 9 (UPI) – A United States official seriously injured in the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka died this week, officials said. Chelsea Decaminada, an international program specialist with the U.S. Department of Commerce in Sri Lanka on assignment, died Monday as a result of injuries sustained during the April 21 suicide bomb attacks on three hotels and three Christian churches throughout the country, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina Teplitz confirmed Wednesday.

"We mourn the loss of Chelsea Decaminada, who succumbed after a valiant fight to injuries from the attacks," Teplitz said in a tweet. "Our prayers are with her family. We pay tribute to Chelsea – and all those lost and injured – by partnering with Sri Lanka and nations worldwide to bring unity in the face of terrorism."

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross was the first to announce her death Tuesday, saying on Twitter, "it was our great hope that Chelsea would recover from her injuries." In a statement, Ross said Decaminada was a talented program specialist in the Department of Commerce's law development program. "Chelsea devoted her life to public service and her dedication and spirit were a model for all of us at Commerce," he said. "She served her country with distinction." He said as they mourn her death they will continue to fight terrorism.

She is the second person from the Washington D.C. area to die in the suicide bombing attack that the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for but has been attributed to terrorist organization National Thawheed Jammath. Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa, a fifth-grade student at Sidwell Friends School, was on leave to study in Sri Lanka, his mother's native home, when he died in the blasts, NBC News reported. The 11-year-old was eating breakfast at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo when it was attacked by a suicide bomber. UNICEF said at least 45 children were killed in the attacks. Sri Lankan authorities have said all responsible for the attacks have either been arrested or killed. More than 250 people, including 45 foreigners, were killed in the attacks.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/05/09/Sri-Lanka-US-official-injured-in-Easter-Sunday-bombings-has-died/2351557382723/

Notable: Agents seize more than 1,000 guns from home in upscale Holmby Hills, CA

Agents Seize More Than 1,000 Guns From Home in Upscale LA Neighborhood, Holmby Hills

More than 1,000 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found early on May 8 at a home in one of the most exclusive upscale neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Holmby Hills. Dramatic aerial footage shows a massive collection of weapons scattered out on what appears to be blankets in the property’s driveway, as police take inventory. One man, whose name has yet to be released, was arrested on suspicion of unlawful transportation, and of giving, lending, or selling an assault weapon, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said, according to the Los Angeles Times. He is expected to be booked, authorities said. The raid occurred around 4 a.m in the 100 block of North Beverly Glen Boulevard.

Police also found firearm manufacturing equipment and tools at the home. According to KABC, the home has multiple rooms and was cluttered with guns and ammunition. The weapons were described as a wide range of makes and models of different ages, including assault weapons, rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Many were modern, but some were also dated 50 years or more, with a few being fit as collectables as they were dated back to the Civil War, KABC reported. “I had never seen so many weapons in my career of 31 years,” LAPD Lt. Chris Ramirez told KABC. “That’s such a big arsenal in a residence like this, in this type of neighborhood. It’s astounding.”

He told the station that it is not illegal for someone to own a large collection of firearms but it is illegal to sell such weapons from a home, and without going through the extensively-regulated state and federal processes. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and LAPD were serving a search warrant. In a written statement to CNN, ATF spokeswoman Ginger Colbrun said that police had received a tip that someone was “conducting illegal firearms transaction outside the scope of the federal firearm license that the individual possess.”

The Daily Mail reported that public property records show the home has five bedrooms and 8,200 square feet of living space. It was last sold in 2001 and its current estimated value is about $7 million. The LA Times reported that court records show the property is owned by Cynthia Beck, who has three daughters with the son of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, Gordon Getty. Beck bought the property in January 2001, but it remains unclear if she has any connection to the firearms find, and the paper could not reach Beck for comment.

Officers from both agencies remained on the scene and continued the investigation. They were going through and disposing of boxes and taking photographs of the evidence, the LA Times reported. ”Obviously it’s a lot,” Officer Mike Lopez, a spokesman with the Los Angeles Police Department, told the LA Times. “They’re going to be there a long time. Possibly even tomorrow.” In a statement sighted by the Times, the ATF said, “ATF and LAPD have no reason to believe the public is in any danger.” In 2015, LAPD seized 1,200 guns, seven tons of ammunition and $230,000 in cash from a home. The owner had died of natural causes and was found in his SUV outside. At the time, it was considered one of the largest weapon’s seizure from one home, the LAPD said

https://www.theepochtimes.com/agents-seize-more-than-1000-guns-from-home-in-upscale-la-neighborhood-holmby-hills_2913113.html

Notable: Anon on cabal flooding CA with MS13/ISIS cheap weapons hidden in houses

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So to tie it all together, the cabal is: flooding CA with MS13/ISIS stockpiling cheap weapons easily obtained to avoids detection hidden in houses like we saw in today's raid..

Possibly smuggling larger weapons in shipping containers and placing them strategically throughout the US via rail lines.

Notable: Anon on FBI lost notes from Clinton probe met significant to concerns over foreign exfiltration leads

There is this Xi guy they call President of the People Rebublic of China.

Does China have a bunch of Dumb Shits running the place in the shadows too?

Ask NK?

Are these DS upending “trade” (peace deals)?

Lights on China this weak week.

How Deep does it go?

China Allegation

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), along with multiple anonymous sources, has alleged that Clinton’s server was compromised by a foreign hostile power, which was receiving Clinton’s incoming and outgoing emails.

That foreign power was China, using a company operating in northern Virginia, The Daily Caller reported, citing a former intelligence officer with expertise in cybersecurity issues and a government staff official—who both spoke on condition of anonymity.

The ICIG was examining the Clinton emails after it was asked by the State Department to check for classified information before the emails could be released pursuant to FOIA requests.

“When [the ICIG] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata—the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails—that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China,” the former intelligence officer said.

He said he couldn’t disclose the name of the company.

“There are indications there are other ‘cutouts’ that were involved. I would be in a lot of trouble if I gave you the name,” he said.

There are a number of Chinese public state-owned companies with addresses in northern Virginia, including China Telecom Americas and China Unicom Americas, both in Herndon, right by the Dulles International Airport and less than 20 miles west of Washington.

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Comey Implicated?

The great Note Taker lost his notes or did the dog eat his homework?

“I don’t recall”

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An intelligence analyst who was previously assigned to the Clinton case reached out to the FBI staffer who originally wrote the notes.

“I know this is a shot in the dark, but do you still have the meeting notes that you wrote up concerning an 8/3/2015 MRE meeting at FBIHQ? I think [redacted] correct me if I’m wrong) that this meeting was with the ICIG, if that helps matters,” the analyst wrote in a Feb. 5 email, also saying the notes “never made it to the file.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-lost-notes-from-clinton-probe-meeting-significant-to-concerns-over-foreign-exfiltration-lead_2912428.html

“I actually remember turning over my original notes for the file for this (it was right at the beginning of the case),” the staffer replied. “I gave them to [redacted] who was running the file then.”

Notable: >>6452891 Transgender Denver student Alec McKinney id'd as 2nd gunman in STEM school shooting

Transgender Denver high school student is identified as 'second gunman who killed one classmate and wounded eight', as friends refer to him as a 'tortured soul' who 'didn't get the support he needed'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7008381/Classmates-reveal-second-Denver-gunman-transgender-didnt-support-needed.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR3Zr7cpYTUcbveY9xJDmD_-lKpVtKHoAZJZj6Obe-4kFby7_KSFPkEYFKQ

Notable: California OKs new sex-ed guidelines for teachers despite objections from parents, protesters

California OKs new sex-ed guidelines for teachers despite objections from parents, protesters

these people are sick

the teachers have already been the first generation that was re-educated by the Hippies from the 60s

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-sex-education-transgender-lgbt

Notable: Buffett's Berkshire "Duped" Out Of $377 Million By "Ponzi-Like Solar Scheme"

Buffett's Berkshire "Duped" Out Of $377 Million By "Ponzi-Like Solar Scheme"

that is one big OOPS$$$$

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-08/buffetts-berkshire-duped-out-377-million-ponzi-solar-scheme-0

Notable: Baltimore TV anchor fired for questioning the leadership of past mayors (who happen to be black females)

Never, ever question the competence of a black female leader(s), regardless of object incompetence demonstrated x3

the left eats its own, always

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7007587/Baltimore-TV-anchor-fired-racist-sexist-question.html

Notable: Matt Gaetz will face Florida Bar grievance committee for tweet about Michael Cohen's 'girlfriends'

Matt Gaetz will face Florida Bar grievance committee for tweet about Michael Cohen's 'girlfriends'

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., will face a grievance committee in the Florida Bar's investigation of his intimidating tweet about former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. The Florida Bar said on Wednesday that the panel, described by the Tampa Bay Times as being akin to a grand jury, will take the case up from the initial review and decide if there was probable cause that Gaetz, who is licensed to practice law in Florida, violated state rules for lawyers. The association, as the highest governing body over licensed lawyers in Florida, was tasked with investigating dozens of complaints issued by Florida lawyers against Gaetz, including intimidation of a witness.

Guidelines published by the Florida Bar stipulate Florida's Supreme Court will have the final say on sanctions, if any, including disbarment. “Congressman Gaetz remains confident that the Florida Bar will not impair his vigorous and successful representation of his district," Gaetz's spokeswoman Jillian Lane Wyant told the Washington Examiner.

In late February, the night before Cohen was set to testify to the House Oversight Committee about his work for President Trump, Gaetz asked Cohen on Twitter: "Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot…" Gaetz, who made an appearance at the hearing despite not being a member of the committee, deleted the tweet and apologized for it, claiming he never meant to threaten anybody. In a phone call reported by Vanity Fair, the congressman told Cohen he chose his words "poorly" in his text.

“Congressman Gaetz, I cannot thank you enough for your message," Cohen wrote back. "The tweet, sadly, has only made a bad situation worse … not only for my wife but for my children as well. With your permission, I would like to share your message with my wife and children. Hopefully, it will bring a little peace to their damaged life. We all make mistakes especially in this crazy partisan time. Thank you again for your text and I hope that the tweet does not cause you any harm. If it does, and there is anything I can do to help you correct it, please feel free to reach out and I would be happy to assist.” Cohen, who pleaded guilty to a handful of crimes, including bank fraud, lying to Congress, and illegal campaign contributions, began his three-year prison sentence Monday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/matt-gaetz-will-face-florida-bar-grievance-committee-for-tweet-about-michael-cohens-girlfriends

Notable: Intel that prompted US to deploy aircrast carrier to Middle East 'came from Israel'

Intel that prompted US to deploy aircraft carrier to Middle East ‘came from Israel’

https://intelnews.org/2019/05/09/01-2544/

Notable: Reminder: The Gettys bankrolled Gov Newsome's political career.

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Reminder: The Gettys bankrolled Gov Newsome's political career.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/

Notable: Venezuelan Authorities Initiate Public Dialogue on Economic Development – Maduro

Venezuelan Authorities Initiate Public Dialogue on Economic Development – Maduro

Venezuelan authorities will engage the general public in discussions on the economic development of the crisis-hit country, President Nicolas Maduro has said.

In an address, broadcast live on Twitter on Wednesday, Maduro said that 4 and 5 May were "the great national days of dialogue", when representatives of all branches of the government discussed changes to the strategy of the country’s development and sought to create a special development plan.

"I have initiated a process of dialogue with the public in an effort to create a plan of action, reconstruction and change in the Bolivarian Revolution. I need a plan … for changing the economic and political life of the country completely. The first events happened on Saturday and Sunday and they were very interesting. Now, I want such public meetings to be held at the end of this week, and thousands of public meetings to be held in order to hear the people, their criticism and suggestions […] People know everything", Maduro said.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201905091074838194-venezuela-public-dialogue-economy-development/